Re: partitioning in %pre - New Issue

[Denice <deatrich lthipc5 epfl ch>]

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.

I have found that if you create ALL your partitions with fdisk in the %pre
section, then they will come out exactly as you specified.  However if you
let the installer do some of the partitioning, then it will not necessarily
order partitions that way you anticipate...

 cheers,
  denice

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