Thanks, John.
I'll have a look at the code that does this, and I appreciate your saying that you believe a 1 sector partition is a reasonable solution.
The inherent problem is that "parted", while nice in many respects, fails to allow you to create arbitrarily numbered partitions. _It_ chooses the partition number, which means that you have to create them in order -> bummer.
Anyway, i'll have a look at some point to see if we can insert a zero length, or a 1 sector sized partition in for missing partitions.
Cheers, -Brian
Thus spake John Chabalko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Hi there - i have a quick question regarding a small problem we've come across using system imager in our environment. We have a golden client that has a partition table with no sda3
we've got:
/dev/sda1 (primary) /dev/sda2 (primary) /dev/sda4 (extended) /dev/sda5 (logical) /dev/sda6 (logical) /dev/sda7 (logical)
we can take the image from the golden client with out any problems, but during the filesystem creation part of the imaging process (putting this image on a fresh machine) the partition creation fails.
we have fixed this by creating sda3 with a size of 1 sector but would like to not have to do that as it uses some space which could otherwise be utilized. this *is* an acceptable fix for this problem - just figured that this scenerio could be incorporated into a later release if anyone else had problems like this...
the reason for this some what strange partition table is that it's a requirement for using Veritas Volume Manager on these systems. Basically we've built these images so that we can install Veritas on any of the systems that we've created using this image. Veritas requires 1 primary partition be free (we've chosen sda3, could be 1, 2 or 4 i guess just as easily) and that there be some unallocated space (few megs) at the end of the disk for private region information.
-john
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