Hi! I realized I posted question about preserve option for disk config under title "Re: MD5 Support". (I wondered why there's no response :) I copied the old post at the end.
As figured out from old posts it seems that preserve option does not work when applied to logical partitions. So, to fix my partitioning scheme I have to make partitions primary. This could be somewhat problematic in some situations ((/ + /boot as primary) + 2 preserved + (1 or more)) but for me the following should work: disk_config hda primary / 512 rw,errors=remount-ro ;ext2 primary /local preserve2 rw ;ext2 logical swap 1024 rw logical /usr 6144 rw ;ext2 logical /tmp 8192 rw ;ext2 disk_config hdd primary /.home preserve1 rw ;ext2 primary /local1 preserve2 rw ;ext2 logical /var 4096 rw ;ext2 logical swap 1024 rw I hope I've put things right. To sum up: preserve works only for primary partitions! ###Related: ### From: mod+linux-fai Subject: Can't preserve extended partitions? Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 07:53:33 -0700 #### Mate **** From: Mate Kosor Subject: Re: MD5 Support Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 00:15:40 -0800 We have fai 2.3.1. I can not get preserve option in disk_config to work. Is this known bug in this version or have I done things wrong way? root@l2:/usr/local/share/fai/disk_config# less 2HD80 # <type> <mountpoint> <size in mb> [mount options] [;extra options] disk_config hda primary / 512 rw,errors=remount-ro ;ext2 logical swap 1024 rw logical /usr 6144 rw ;ext2 logical /local preserve7 rw ;ext2 logical /tmp 8192 rw ;ext2 disk_config hdd primary /var 4096 rw ;ext2 logical swap 1024 rw logical /.home preserve6 rw ;ext2 logical /local1 preserve7 rw ;ext2
