Hi, We have a fairly basic partition layout. Basically we have a a root partition, a swap partition, and a large data partition. d-i currently uses partitions 1, 5 and 7 for these.
We want to be able to preserve partition 7 (or even all of them) under normal circumstances and just reformat the filesystem on partition 1 when doing a new install. If a user wants to explicitly do a fully destructive install, then we'd go and repartition (probably producing the same layout) and reformat all filesystems. So, is there a "correct" way of accomplishing this with d-i? Currently, we'd been running an early_command that erased the first partition, and then we preseeded d-i to use the largest free space. That seems to be causing a second swap partition to be created. If you repeat this process too many times, the partition table starts to look ridiculous :-) We basically want to be able to avoid repartitioning, and just selectively reformat specific filesystems. Can we tell d-i to just avoid partitioning altogether, and the partitioning/formatting logic handled in an external script? regards Andrew
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