preserving dos partitions

[Michael Tautschnig]

[...]

> 
> Yes, these are DELL service partitions and I want to preserve them but not
> to mount them.
> I don't know how to do the configuration for these two lines.
> 
> The '???' is meant for the whole line. The error message of setup-storage was:
> 
> unknown/invalid filesystem type fat32 (mkfs.fat32 not found in PATH)
> 
> Is this the right way?:
> 
> disk_config disk1 preserve_always:1,2
> primary - - vfat ro
> primary - - vfat ro
> primary /boot          500        ext3    rw
> logical /              15G-16G    ext3    rw,errors=remount-ro  createopts="-m 
> 5" tuneopts="-c 0 -i 0"
> ...
> 

You cannot use "-" in the size specification, so just use "0", that should work
fine. And as you neither want to format nor mount them, the following should do:

disk_config disk1 preserve_always:1,2
primary - 0 - -
primary - 0 - -
...

Best,
Michael

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