Setup-storage use space between partitions

[Steven Wend]

> On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 05:16:16PM +0200, Steven Wend wrote:
>> Hello guys,
>>
>> I have only one hdd which hast three partitions as shown below.
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------
>> | 1. NTFS part | 2. NTFS part  |  2. NTFS part  |
>> -------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Now I want to keep the first and the third partition. The second one can
>> has to be deleted and the upcoming free space should be used to install
>> Ubuntu with FAI.
>>
>> I tried to handle this with this disc_config:
>> ----
>> disk_config disk1 preserve_always:1,3 disklabel:msdos bootable:1
>> fstabkey:uuid
>>
>> primary /      16000      ext3  rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro
>> logical swap   4000       swap  rw
>> logical /home  10000-50%  ext3  rw,noatime,nosuid,nodev createopts="-L
>> home -m 1" tuneopts="-c 0 -i 0"
>> ----
>>
>> The first and third partition is marked with preserve_always.
> ...
>> Is this a bug or do I have a logical problem?
>
> "logical" hits the nail on its head - your partitions are not numbered
> 1, 2, 3 - but (very probably) 1, 5, 6 (with an "extended" partition
> sitting in between, supposedly at 2). Check with "fdisk -lu" (from
> inside a "sysinfo" run, for example)
>
> S
>

Hello Steffen,

thanks for your answer. First I had to update my "picture":
-------------------------------------------------
| 1. NTFS part | 2. NTFS part  |  3. NTFS part  |
|    PRIMARY   |    PRIMARY    |    PRIMARY     |
-------------------------------------------------

The initial table of fstab is:
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Disk /dev/sda: 171.8 GB, 171798691840 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 20886 cylinders, total 335544320 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xaad98181

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1            2048   268437503   134217728    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2       268437504   334899199    33230848    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3   *   334899200   335513599      307200    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
-----------

I made the wanted changes manually with fdisk an the result was:
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Disk /dev/sda: 171.8 GB, 171798691840 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 20886 cylinders, total 335544320 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xaad98181

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1            2048   268437503   134217728    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2       268437504   301991935    16777216   83  Linux
/dev/sda3   *   334899200   335513599      307200    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda4       301991936   334899199    16453632    5  Extended
/dev/sda5       301993984   310382591     4194304   83  Linux
/dev/sda6       310384640   334899199    12257280   83  Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order
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If I fix the table entries it looks like this:
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Disk /dev/sda: 171.8 GB, 171798691840 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 20886 cylinders, total 335544320 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xaad98181

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1            2048   268437503   134217728    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2       268437504   301991935    16777216   83  Linux
/dev/sda3       301991936   334899199    16453632    5  Extended
/dev/sda4   *   334899200   335513599      307200    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda5       301993984   310382591     4194304   83  Linux
/dev/sda6       310384640   334899199    12257280   83  Linux
-----------

After that I modified my config_disk with "preserve_always:1,4" but the
same error was the result.

What does the "preserve_always:X" saves? Is the sda/hdaX before or after
the wanted modification ment?