setup-storage and preserving partitions
Jeffrey Stolte
stolte at ucar.edu
Fri Mar 26 16:50:34 CET 2010
We have been using FAI for several years, but have just started to try
disk partitioning with setup-storage. Our standard disk configuration
uses 2 primary partitions and 3 logical partitions. We would like
to preserve the *size* of all partitions and preserve the *contents*
of only the last two logical partitions. Here is how we did this
with setup_harddisks:
disk_config sda
primary / preserve1 defaults,errors=remount-ro ; -j ext3 format
primary swap preserve2 sw ; format
logical /var preserve5 defaults,errors=remount-ro ; -j ext3 format
logical /home preserve6 defaults,nosuid,nodev,errors=remount-ro ; ext3
logical /d1 preserve7 defaults,nosuid,nodev,errors=remount-ro ; ext3
I have not been able to find the proper syntax to use with setup-storage
to achieve this same result. I think it should look something like the
following, but I'm not sure what to put in the "size" column:
disk_config sda disklabel:msdos bootable:1 preserve_always:6,7
primary / ?? ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro createopts="-j"
primary swap ?? swap sw
logical /var ?? ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro createopts="-j"
logical /home ?? ext3 defaults,nosuid,nodev,errors=remount-ro
logical /d1 ?? ext3 defaults,nosuid,nodev,errors=remount-ro
(Note that the partition sizes may vary from machine to machine.)
Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you.
Jeff Stolte
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