On Tuesday 15 July 2008, Andrew Pollock wrote: > So, is there a "correct" way of accomplishing this with d-i? Currently, > we'd been running an early_command that erased the first partition, and > then we preseeded d-i to use the largest free space. That seems to be > causing a second swap partition to be created. If you repeat this > process too many times, the partition table starts to look ridiculous > :-)
This is probably the simplest workaround. I think you should be able to avoid the extra swap by specifying a custom recipe that just does not contain a swap partition to be used with the free space option. You may have to add a custom hook script somewhere to get partman to use your existing swap. Should be as simple as creating a flag file in the appropriate dir: /var/lib/partman/devices/$device/$partition. The key file here is named "method" with content "swap\n". Normally swap partitions are formatted by default, but omitting the (empty) "format" flag file should work too. I expect the other files in the partition dir to be recreated automatically. Of course you will have to identify what's the correct dir somehow. Cheers, FJP
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