> 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 >
Hello Steffen, thanks for your answer. First I had to update my "picture": ------------------------------------------------- | 1. NTFS part | 2. NTFS part | 3. NTFS part | | PRIMARY | PRIMARY | PRIMARY | ------------------------------------------------- The initial table of fstab is: ----------- Disk /dev/sda: 171.8 GB, 171798691840 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 20886 cylinders, total 335544320 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0xaad98181 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 2048 268437503 134217728 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda2 268437504 334899199 33230848 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda3 * 334899200 335513599 307200 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT ----------- I made the wanted changes manually with fdisk an the result was: ----------- Disk /dev/sda: 171.8 GB, 171798691840 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 20886 cylinders, total 335544320 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0xaad98181 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 2048 268437503 134217728 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda2 268437504 301991935 16777216 83 Linux /dev/sda3 * 334899200 335513599 307200 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda4 301991936 334899199 16453632 5 Extended /dev/sda5 301993984 310382591 4194304 83 Linux /dev/sda6 310384640 334899199 12257280 83 Linux Partition table entries are not in disk order ----------- If I fix the table entries it looks like this: ----------- Disk /dev/sda: 171.8 GB, 171798691840 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 20886 cylinders, total 335544320 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0xaad98181 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 2048 268437503 134217728 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda2 268437504 301991935 16777216 83 Linux /dev/sda3 301991936 334899199 16453632 5 Extended /dev/sda4 * 334899200 335513599 307200 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda5 301993984 310382591 4194304 83 Linux /dev/sda6 310384640 334899199 12257280 83 Linux ----------- After that I modified my config_disk with "preserve_always:1,4" but the same error was the result. What does the "preserve_always:X" saves? Is the sda/hdaX before or after the wanted modification ment?
