Re: [preseed] multiple disks, rules to select the "smallest" one

2015-05-29 Thread Geert Stappers
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 12:47:17PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 12:11:26PM -0400, Sandro Tosi wrote: > ... > > In order to avoid writing a custom preseed file all the times, we're > > wondering if there is already a policy that would instruct d-i to use > > the smallest phys

Re: [preseed] multiple disks, rules to select the "smallest" one

2015-05-29 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Sandro Tosi (2015-05-27): > Hello, > in case a machine has just one disk, we can skip the > > d-i partman-auto/disk string > > line and the d-i will do the right thing. > > Sometimes we also have machines with multiple drives, consider the now > usual case of a fast SSD for the OS and a sl

Re: [preseed] multiple disks, rules to select the "smallest" one

2015-05-27 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 12:11:26PM -0400, Sandro Tosi wrote: ... > In order to avoid writing a custom preseed file all the times, we're > wondering if there is already a policy that would instruct d-i to use > the smallest physical drive on the system as the one to partition and > use for installat

[preseed] multiple disks, rules to select the "smallest" one

2015-05-27 Thread Sandro Tosi
Hello, in case a machine has just one disk, we can skip the d-i partman-auto/disk string line and the d-i will do the right thing. Sometimes we also have machines with multiple drives, consider the now usual case of a fast SSD for the OS and a slower/larger spinning drive for data. In orde