PartMan
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Basic Info
Partman is an incomprehensible automatic partitioning language.
Help Files
These files are in the Debian and Ubuntu packages, and give some explanation
Dissecting a Semi-working configuration
# Automatic software RAID 1 with LVM partitioning d-i partman-auto/method string raid
This sentence makes partman know that it will be making a raid
# Use the first two disks d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/sda /dev/sdb
after d-i partman-auto/disk you must put the list of hard drives that are going to be used
# Define physical partitions
d-i partman-auto/expert_recipe string \
multiraid :: \
400000 1000 9500000 raid \
$primary{ } method{ raid } \
. \
4000 1200 4100 linux-swap \
$primary{ } method{ swap } format{ } \
.
An interesting thing about partman is that you can put everything on one line, or you can break lines using the character "\". Use a "." in between hard drives. $primary{ } is needed to make the partition a primary partition. method { } is used to tell it what type to format. You can use swap, raid, or format. format { } tells partman to format the partition. For some reason don't put this statement in a section that you will be using for the raid.
# Parameters are:
# <raidtype> <devcount> <sparecount> <fstype> <mountpoint> \
# <devices> <sparedevices>
d-i partman-auto-raid/recipe string \
1 2 0 ext3 / \
/dev/sda1#/dev/sdb1 \
.
d-i partman-md/confirm boolean true
d-i partman-md/device_remove_md boolean true
d-i partman/confirm_write_new_label boolean true
d-i partman/choose_partition select finish
d-i partman/confirm boolean true
d-i partman-lvm/device_remove_lvm boolean true
d-i mdadm/boot_degraded boolean true
