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
