Joey Hess wrote:
> * I manually unpacked partman-auto and partman-ext3, and re-ran partman. This
> added an item to the main menu, titled "10
> partman-auto/text/automatically_partition doesn't exist". This may be my
> error; as I did not go through anna to install this stuff. I did call
> debconf-loadtemplates however. I rebooted in expert mode, and anna does not
> list partman-{auto,ext3} even at low priority. Strange. This has prevented
> me from trying out the automatic partitioning so far.I guess I didn't install those right. I've manged to get them to work, so here is a final bit of the review for the automatic partitioning parts of partman: * If I pick automatic partitioning from the main partman menu, the second item in the menu is "Use IDE1 master - <drive info> entirely/var/lib" I don't know what that /var/lib is doing there, and it seems that more may have been truncated by cdebconf on display. * I picked /, /home, and swap scheme. This gave me a primary partition for / , a 2.1 gb logical partitoon (#5) that did not have a mount point assigned, and partition #6 was /home. If I commit that, it complains that partition #5 has no mount point assigned. * If I pick the other scheme, it thinks that 970 mb out of 40 gb is enough for /var; in my experience this is a bit low due to apt cache. Also, the 1.5 gb /var/mail partition makes this seem a rather specialised scheme, only for mail servers. Combinding that into /var for a 2.5 gb /var would be more general, IMHO. (This scheme also gave me a 2.1 gb unmounted partition). * After selecting the abovementioned automatic partition scheme, I decided to copy the contents of my usb key to /tmp using partman. After a while, I got an error message, saying "GNU parted can not resize this partition to this size. We're working on it!". I don't understand, which partition, to which size, and why does a copy involve resizing a partition? * None of the above two partition schemes seemed to actually set up a swap partition, though both listed it as one of the things that would be made. * If I manually set up a single partition occupying the whole disk, then go into automatic partitioning, tell it partition the entire drive, and then go back from the next screen (the list of partitioning schemes), my manually created partition is gone, and the whole drive is free space. * I am not l33t enough to use the "manually enter the partitioning scheme (for experts only)". So who is? :-) * Also, I have partman-ext3 installed, and for some reason this seems to have made partman decide I want only ext3 partitions. In the partition config screen, there is no option for partition type any more. -- see shy jo
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