Few more questions, I'm making some progress by using sfdisk in this case. I
need to get some machines imaged so I'm working around it.
Regarding the partitioning. On the golden image, fstab looks like this:
/dev/sda2 / xfs defaults 1 1
/dev/sda1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/sda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
And I notice that autoinstallscript.conf sets up swap to fill the rest of the
disk with a fixed size / and /boot. I want it to be a fixed /boot and swap and
have / fill up the rest of the disk. I modified autoinstallscript.conf to do
this. Is this because swap is on /dev/sda3? I modified autoinstallscript.conf
so that swap is on /dev/sda2 and / is on /dev/sda3. Does the fstab order
matter to si_prepareimage or does it instantiate by device number?
My modified autoinstallscript.conf looks like this now:
<disk dev="/dev/sda" label_type="msdos" unit_of_measurement="MB">
<!--
This disk's output was brought to you by the partition tool "sfdisk",
and by the numbers 4 and 5 and the letter Q.
-->
<part num="1" size="271" p_type="primary" p_name="-" flags="boot" />
<part num="2" size="16384" p_type="primary" p_name="-" flags="-" />
<part num="3" size="*" p_type="primary" p_name="-" flags="-" />
</disk>
<fsinfo line="10" real_dev="/dev/sda3" mp="/" fs="xfs" options="defaults"
dump="1" pass="1" />
<fsinfo line="20" real_dev="/dev/sda1" mp="/boot" fs="ext2"
options="defaults" dump="1" pass="2" />
<fsinfo line="30" real_dev="/dev/sda2" mp="swap" fs="swap"
options="defaults" dump="0" pass="0" />
<fsinfo line="40" real_dev="/dev/cdrom" mp="/mnt/cdrom" fs="udf,iso9660"
options="noauto,owner,kudzu,ro" dump="0" pass="0" format="no" />
<fsinfo line="50" real_dev="none" mp="/dev/pts" fs="devpts"
options="gid=5,mode=620" dump="0" pass="0" />
<fsinfo line="60" real_dev="none" mp="/proc" fs="proc" options="defaults"
dump="0" pass="0" />
<fsinfo line="70" real_dev="none" mp="/dev/shm" fs="tmpfs"
options="defaults" dump="0" pass="0" />
having moved swap to /dev/sda2 and / to /dev/sda3.
Mitch
Mitch Sako wrote:
> It's stdout:
>
> sh-2.05b# parted -s -- /dev/sda print 2>/dev/null
> Warning: Unable to align partition properly. This probably means that
> another partitioning tool generated an incorrect partition table,
> because it didn't have the correct BIOS geometry. It is safe to
> ignore,but ignoring may cause (fixable) problems with some boot loaders.
> Disk geometry for /dev/sda: 0.000-69878.000 megabytes
> Disk label type: msdos
> Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags
> 1 0.000 284.195 primary ext2 boot
> 2 284.195 2236.366 primary linux-swap 3 2236.367
> 69878.000 primary xfs
> Just to be sure....:
> sh-2.05b# parted -s -- /dev/sda print 1>/dev/null
> sh-2.05b#
> Andrea Righi wrote:
>
>> Right.. it's a common behaviour for a lot of distros... and what about
>> the output, is it printed to stdout or stderr?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> -Andrea
>>
>> Mitch Sako wrote:
>>
>>> I checked again. The RH RPM is parted-1.6.3-29.5 if that makes any
>>> difference. RH usually doesn't change the minor release number and just
>>> appends patches to it.
>>>
>>> Mitch
>>>
>>> Andrea Righi wrote:
>>>
>>>> Mitch Sako wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> $ parted --version
>>>>> GNU Parted 1.6.3
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> it's a very old version... have you tried to update it to a newer
>>>> release (at least 1.6.23)?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> $ parted -s -- /dev/sda print
>>>>> Warning: Unable to align partition properly. This probably means that
>>>>> another partitioning tool generated an incorrect partition table,
>>>>> because it didn't have the correct BIOS geometry. It is safe to
>>>>> ignore,but ignoring may cause (fixable) problems with some boot
>>>>> loaders.
>>>>> Disk geometry for /dev/sda: 0.000-76324.500 megabytes
>>>>> Disk label type: msdos
>>>>> Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags
>>>>> 1 0.000 271.074 primary ext2 boot
>>>>> 2 271.075 53022.036 primary xfs 3 53022.037
>>>>> 76324.438 primary linux-swap
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, the output seems correct... can you check if it is printed to
>>>> stdout or stderr? for example what happens if you run:
>>>>
>>>> # parted -s -- /dev/sda print 2>/dev/null
>>>>
>>>> If the commands doesn't print anything we can fix it redirecting all to
>>>> stdout... let me know..
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> -Andrea
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
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