I'm running Debian Wheezy with FAI 4.0.3 and for my disk_config I'm using
the following:
disk_config disk1 disklabel:msdos fstabkey:uuid bootable:1
primary / 20G ext4 rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro tuneopts="-c 0 -i
0"
logical /var 10G ext4 rw,noatime createopts="-L var -m
5" tuneopts="-c 0 -i 0"
logical swap 8G swap sw
logical /tmp 20G ext4 rw,noatime createopts="-L tmp -m
0" tuneopts="-c 0 -i 0"
logical /home 1G ext4 rw,noatime,nosuid createopts="-L home -m
1" tuneopts="-c 0 -i 0"
logical /backup 10G- ext4 rw,noatime createopts="-L backup"
tuneopts="-c 0 -i 0"
My problem is that after I do the FAI install on the machine, and look at
the partition table with fdisk, I see:
/dev/sda1 * 2048 41945087 20971520 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 41945088 1952448511 955251712 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 41945090 62916609 10485760 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 62916612 79693827 8388608 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7 79693830 121636869 20971520 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 121636872 123734023 1048576 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 123734026 1952448511 914357243 83 Linux
Why is the first partition starting at 2048 instead of 1? If I look at
the disk in cfdisk, it's showing 1.05MB of free space at the beginning of
the disk...although it's a trivial amount of space being lost, why am I
losing it?
I have a Debian Squeeze system running FAI 3.4.7 and I don't see that
problem when using the same disk config.
Any help would be much appreciated, the main reason I'm looking into this
is because I'm trying to use the preserve_always option with FAI 4.0.3
after I've already done an initial install on the system with the same
FAI disk_config and I'm getting:
Previous partitions overflow begin of preserved partition /dev/sda8
Prototype mismatch: sub Parse::RecDescent::namespace000001::dclone ($) vs none
at /usr/share/perl5/Parse/RecDescent. pm line 1984 during global destruction.
I was hoping it had something to do with the 1.05MB of wasted space in the
beginning of the disk causing problems. Again, using the same
disk_config and adding the preserve_always works perfectly with 3.4.7.
Thanks!
Craig
