Partman-Auto - Multi-Disk OR Use Existing Layout via Preseed

First, I have to say I love Debian. But I've been struggling with the preseeding lately. First it was the keyboard layout, as the name has changed a few times. But that's been rectified. So, now I am trying to get partitioning right. This was the ...

Message posted on the April 25th, 2012 - 11:00 PM ET

Multi-disk partman-auto LVM expert_recipe problems

I'm attempting to create a hands off debian install that partitions out our servers. Each server has a single internal 8GB SSD and a hardware RAID 10 volume we'll use for volatile storage (/var, /tmp, /home). All partman* d-i options are included ...

Message posted on the February 19th, 2012 - 4:20 PM ET

Bug#515607: partman-auto-lvm: ask how much VG space to use

Package: partman-auto-lvm Version: 32 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch User: ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Usertags: origin-ubuntu ubuntu-patch jaunty Something I've consistently heard from users of guided LVM partitioning in Ubuntu is that they ...

Message posted on the February 16th, 2009 - 8:50 AM ET

preseeding/partman-auto: LVM expert recipe problem

Hi, I have a problem regarding the partman-auto/expert-recipe. I have this minimal recipe (very minimal, not really useful at all except to prove this bug) and it calculates 2200000100 MB (and a lot more in my original recipe). : Oct 25 10:25:49 ...

Message posted on the October 25th, 2011 - 7:10 AM ET

Bug#627064: partman-auto: Function create_primary_partitions() creates whole-disk partition even if smaller requested

Package: partman-auto Version: 96 Severity: normal Dear Sirs, I have created preseed file for lenny installation and I wanted to reuse it for preseed installation of squeeze. But I have problem with automatic partitioning. In the preseed file ...

Message posted on the May 17th, 2011 - 8:30 AM ET

Bug#254727: partman-auto: reusing existing partitions with same method

I've been looking at http://bugs.debian.org/254727 ("Creates swap even when there is already one"), and also at https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/746313 ("partman should reuse existing BIOS Boot Partition") which has the same ...

Message posted on the April 20th, 2011 - 12:30 PM ET

Preseeding and partman-auto-recipe.txt

I'm looking for a more complete list of preseedable questions/answers than given by the example preseed.cfg files found on various sites. Methods revolving around debconf-get-selections aren't satisfactory as I'm not interested in duplicating and ...

Message posted on the December 1st, 2012 - 11:00 AM ET

Bug#543786: partman-auto-raid: having to name devices explicitly is clumsy

Package: partman-auto-raid Version: 15 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch User: ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Usertags: origin-ubuntu ubuntu-patch karmic partman-auto-raid/recipe currently has to be set like this: d-i partman-auto-raid/recipe string ...

Message posted on the August 26th, 2009 - 6:30 PM ET

Bug#653305: partman-auto: Please provide hook when disk is too small for the expert recipe

Package: partman-auto Version: 96 Severity: important Tags: patch User: debian-edu@lists.debian.org Usertags: debian-edu When installing a Debian Edu main-server+workstation+thin-client-server on a virtual machine with 20 GB virtual disk, the ...

Message posted on the December 26th, 2011 - 12:40 PM ET

Bug#690977: partman-auto: Add a way to add "discard" option to filesystems

Package: partman-auto Version: 104 Severity: wishlist Tags: d-i Hi, SSD requires filesystems (ext{3,4}, swap,...) to be mounted with the "discard" option to send TRIM command to the underlying drive. It should be possible to add this ...

Message posted on the October 19th, 2012 - 3:00 PM ET

partman-auto: partition sizes too small

We recently had installation reports where the size of either the root partition (in the "separated / and /home" recipe) or the /usr partition (in the "multi" recipe) are too small to fit a full desktop installation. Attached ...

Message posted on the August 20th, 2010 - 8:50 PM ET

reassign 516347 to partman-auto-lvm

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Message posted on the February 22nd, 2009 - 1:50 AM ET

reassign 516339 to partman-auto-lvm

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Message posted on the February 22nd, 2009 - 1:50 AM ET

reassign 511259 to partman-auto-lvm

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Message posted on the January 9th, 2009 - 6:50 AM ET

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