preserving dos partitions

[Birgit Kattner]

Am Donnerstag 05 August 2010 16:05:14 schrieb 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
Hi Michael,
thanks a lot, it works!
-- 
Regards
Birgit 
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