Re: partitioning in %pre - New Issue

[John <red computerdatasafe com au>]

On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 James_Martin ao uscourts gov wrote:

> Thanks for everyone's help with getting the disk partitioned in %pre.  I
> have that setup fine now.  The weird thing is, that after Red Hat installs,
> the partition is somehow moved to #3.  I can't figure it out.  I'm
> explicitly telling it to create it as partition 1.  When my machine is
> built and I do a :
> 
> fdisk -l /dev/cciss/c0d0
> 
> Disk /dev/cciss/c0d0: 255 heads, 32 sectors, 4358 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 8160 * 512 bytes
> 
>            Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/cciss/c0d0p1   *        10        22     53040   83  Linux
> /dev/cciss/c0d0p2            23      4101  16642320   83  Linux
> /dev/cciss/c0d0p3             1         9     36704   12  Compaq
> diagnostics
> /dev/cciss/c0d0p4          4102      4358   1048560    f  Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
> /dev/cciss/c0d0p5          4102      4358   1048544   82  Linux swap
> 
> Partition table entries are not in disk order
> 
> ###
> Why aren't partition table entries in disk order?  Weird how the third
> partition starts at the first cylinder. BTW, no lectures on the partition
> layout please, this is just a test-box.

fdisk is supposed to be able to fix that. It used to not work - back in
RHL 6.x I think, and  exchanged email with the maintainer who said he
had found the proble. By then, though, I'd trashed the disk and couldn't
test the fix.

Try it.


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