Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (51 mails)

[Mike Marion <mmarion@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 04:02:56PM -0700, Leonardo  L. P. da Mata wrote:

> i need to format all partitions except the /work, is that possible?

If you just want to do the mkfs on them and not resize, that can be done..
I've done it.  This is what I use to re-format all but a /local partition we
use (this is the full xml pulled in via rules.xml):

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE profile SYSTEM "/usr/share/autoinstall/dtd/profile.dtd">
<profile xmlns="http://www.suse.com/1.0/yast2ns"; 
xmlns:config="http://www.suse.com/1.0/configns";>
    <partitioning_advanced>
            <fstab>
                    <!-- Read data from existing fstab, don't format filesystem 
on /local/mnt or /local/scratch -->
                    <use_existing_fstab 
config:type="boolean">true</use_existing_fstab>
                    <!-- All partitions found in fstab wil be formatted and 
mounted by default unless we do the following to save them -->
                    <partitions config:type="list">
                            <partition>
                                    <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
                                    <mount>/</mount>
                            </partition>
                            <partition>
                                    <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
                                    <mount>/var</mount>
                            </partition>
                            <partition>
                                    <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
                                    <mount>/boot</mount>
                            </partition>
                            <partition>
                                    <format config:type="boolean">false</format>
                                    <mount>/local</mount>
                            </partition>
                    </partitions>
            </fstab>
    </partitioning_advanced>
</profile>


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