Re: [suse-autoinstall] Syntax to get autoyast to leave existing partitions untouched?

9 Sep 2005

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Paul Beltrani  09/09/05 10:50 am >>> 
I have reviewed the documentation included with autoyast2 v2.11.13 but
have been unable to generate a control file which will reuse
Paul,

I have a similar situation where a particular partition will be
conditionally formatted (/home in my case).  The other partitions (swap
and /) are always wiped and recreated.  Using SLES9-SP2, simply changing
the <format> field from true to false for /home in my control file
yields the results I want.  Interestingly, all of the partitions are
actually deleted and then recreated, but since the partition table is
created exactly as it was before, and the /home partition is marked as
"do not format", all the data is preserved.

Ryan

partitions on an IDE drive.

I used autoyast to do an automated install of 9.3Pro on a workstation
and had it automatically create, format and mount the following
partitions:
  Part, type, size, FS, mount point
   1, primary, 5GB, reiser, /
   2, primary, 512MB, swap
   3, primary, 512MB, reiser,  /var
   4, primary, <remainder of drive>, reiser, /export

This worked exactly as expected.

I then tried to rebuild the system as 10.0RC1 using the exact same
control file with the following changes:
 1) Do NOT create any of the partitions
 2) Only format partitions 1,2 and 3,  NOT partition 4

i.e. Do not change the partition layout and do not touch the
filesystem on partition 4.

When attempting the rebuild yast states it will first delete all 4
partitions then recreate them. In effect it is completely rebuilding
the drive and wiping all info.  This is not what I would like to
happen.

I expect this may have something to do with the <use>all</use>
property of the second file. However if I specify any value other than
"all" or leave it out completely yast fails with the msg "Error while
configuring partitions. Try again".

Does anyone have a suggestion as to where the error may be?

The partitioning portions of control files follow:

Initial build:
    <partitioning config:type="list">
      <drive>
        <device>/dev/hda</device>
        <partitions config:type="list">
          <partition>
            primary
            1
            131
            <create config:type="boolean">true</create>
            <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
            <filesystem config:type="symbol">reiser</filesystem>
            <mount>/</mount>
            <size>5GB</size>
          </partition>
          <partition>
            primary
            2
            130
            <create config:type="boolean">true</create>
            <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
            <filesystem config:type="symbol">swap</filesystem>
            <mount>swap</mount>
            <size>512MB</size>
          </partition>
          <partition>
            primary
            3
            131
            <create config:type="boolean">true</create>
            <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
            <filesystem config:type="symbol">reiser</filesystem>
            <mount>/var</mount>
            <size>512MB</size>
          </partition>
          <partition>
            primary
            4
            131
            <create config:type="boolean">true</create>
            <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
            <filesystem config:type="symbol">reiser</filesystem>
            <mount>/export</mount>
            <size>auto</size>
          </partition>
        </partitions>
        <use>all</use>
      </drive>
    </partitioning>

Re- build:
    <partitioning config:type="list">
      <drive>
        <device>/dev/hda</device>
        <partitions config:type="list">
          <partition>
            primary
            1
            131
            <create config:type="boolean">false</create>
            <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
            <filesystem config:type="symbol">reiser</filesystem>
            <mount>/</mount>
          </partition>
          <partition>
            primary
            2
            130
            <create config:type="boolean">false</create>
            <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
            <filesystem config:type="symbol">swap</filesystem>
            <mount>swap</mount>
          </partition>
          <partition>
            primary
            3
            131
            <create config:type="boolean">false</create>
            <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
            <filesystem config:type="symbol">reiser</filesystem>
            <mount>/var</mount>
          </partition>
          <partition>
            primary
            4
            131
            <create config:type="boolean">false</create>
            <format config:type="boolean">false</format>
            <filesystem config:type="symbol">reiser</filesystem>
            <mount>/export</mount>
          </partition>
        </partitions>
        <use>all</use>
      </drive>
    </partitioning>

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Re: [suse-autoinstall] Syntax to get autoyast to leave existing partitions untouched?

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