On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 09:37:44PM +0000, ryan wrote: > Hey list, I'm trying to get my rematastered debian 7.7 iso to install > properly on several different classes of workstation we have. Same basic > hardware, all machines have 2 disks and the size is anywhere from 160GB > up to 1T. > > I created a recipe in my preseed file, that seems to _almost_ work. I can > get the remastered iso to install on both 160GB machines, and 1TB machines > with the same recipe, but in the 1TB machines, partman still uses the > minimum values for the partitions, then throws all the extra space left > in the lvm array into a dummy lv (for later removal). Both software raid > arrays appear to get created properly. At least md1 does seem to get the > remainder of the disk after md0 is created. >
Euh, "Error: Missing information".
* RAID0 or RAID1?
* If you care about LVM, why bother about mdX ( md0, md1) ?
* What is wrong with "throws extra space on the 1TB machine in dummy LV" ?
> I thought I had setup the priorities correctly, but I guess not. Cranked
> up priority for md1 creation, and turned down priority for the dummy lvm
> partition. Everything else in the middle.
>
> Here is the partman section of my preseed
>
> d-i partman-lvm/device_remove_lvm boolean true
> d-i partman-md/device_remove_md boolean true
> d-i partman-auto/purge_lvm_from_device boolean true
>
> d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/sda /dev/sdb
> d-i partman-auto/method string raid
>
> d-i partman-auto-lvm/new_vg_name string vg00
> d-i partman-auto-lvm/guided_size string max
>
> d-i partman-auto/expert_recipe string \
> raid-lvm :: \
> 512 10 512 raid \
> $primary{ } $lvmignore{ } $bootable{ } \
> method{ raid } \
> . \
> 155000 50000 -1 raid \
> $primary{ } $lvmignore{ } \
> method{ raid } \
> . \
> 10000 5000 20000 ext4 \
> $defaultignore $lvmok{ } lv_name{ lv00 } \
> method{ format } format{ } \
> use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext4 } \
> mountpoint{ / } \
> . \
> 20000 5000 100000 ext4 \
> $defaultignore $lvmok{ } lv_name{ lv01 } \
> method{ format } format{ } \
> use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext4 } \
> mountpoint{ /home } \
> . \
> 10000 5000 20000 ext4 \
> $defaultignore $lvmok{ } lv_name{ lv02 } \
> method{ format } format{ } \
> use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext4 } \
> mountpoint{ /var } \
> . \
> 10000 5000 20000 ext4 \
> $defaultignore $lvmok{ } lv_name{ lv03 } \
> method{ format } format{ } \
> use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext4 } \
> mountpoint{ /usr } \
> . \
> 10000 10000 10000 ext4 \
> $defaultignore $lvmok{ } lv_name{ lv04 } \
> method{ format } format{ } \
> use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext4 } \
> mountpoint{ /tmp } \
> . \
> 16000 4000 32000 linux-swap \
> $defaultignore $lvmok{ } lv_name{ lv05 } \
> method{ swap } format{ } \
> . \
> 25000 5000 50000 ext4 \
> $defaultignore $lvmok{ } lv_name{ lv06 } \
> method{ format } format{ } \
> use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext4 } \
> mountpoint{ /opt } \
> . \
> 50000 3000 500000 ext4 \
> $defaultignore $lvmok{ } lv_name{ lv07 } \
> method{ format } format{ } \
> use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext4 } \
> mountpoint{ /var/opt } \
> . \
> 512 10 -1 ext4 \
> $defaultignore $lvmok{ } lv_name{ deleteme } \
> method{ lvm } \
> .
>
> d-i partman-auto-raid/recipe string \
> 1 2 0 ext4 /boot /dev/sda1#/dev/sdb1 . \
> 1 2 0 lvm - /dev/sda2#/dev/sdb2 .
>
>
> d-i partman-partitioning/confirm_write_new_label boolean true
> d-i partman/choose_partition select finish
>
> d-i partman/confirm boolean true
> d-i partman/confirm_nooverwrite boolean true
> d-i partman-lvm/confirm boolean true
> d-i partman-md/confirm boolean true
> d-i partman-md/confirm_nooverwrite boolean true
>
And what result did you get?
What is the expected result?
In other words: I don't understand
Subject: Preseed partman recipe not allocating free lvm space properly
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Geert Stappers
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