Extended partitions not being created

2 Jul 2004

      Hi all,

I'm having some problems creating extended partitions with autoyast.
I've created a reference profile from a machine with the following
layout:

The partitioning section of the resulting file is as follows:

---- <AUTOYAST GENERATED PARTITIONING SECTION> ----
        <partitions config:type="list">
          <partition>
            <filesystem config:type="symbol">swap</filesystem>
            <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
            <mount>swap</mount>
            <partition_id config:type="integer">130</partition_id>
            <partition_nr config:type="integer">2</partition_nr>
            <region config:type="list">
              <region_entry config:type="integer">2</region_entry>
              <region_entry config:type="integer">131</region_entry>
            </region>
            <size>1069219841</size>
          </partition>
          <partition>
            <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem>
            <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
            <mount>/</mount>
            <partition_id config:type="integer">131</partition_id>
            <partition_nr config:type="integer">3</partition_nr>
            <region config:type="list">
              <region_entry config:type="integer">133</region_entry>
              <region_entry config:type="integer">2168</region_entry>
            </region>
            <size>17823072257</size>
          </partition>
          <partition>
            <partition_id config:type="integer">5</partition_id>
            <partition_nr config:type="integer">4</partition_nr>
            <region config:type="list">
              <region_entry config:type="integer">2301</region_entry>
              <region_entry config:type="integer">2126</region_entry>
            </region>
            <size>17477632001</size>
          </partition>
          <partition>
            <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext2</filesystem>
            <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
            <mount>/var</mount>
            <partition_id config:type="integer">131</partition_id>
            <partition_nr config:type="integer">5</partition_nr>
            <region config:type="list">
              <region_entry config:type="integer">2301</region_entry>
              <region_entry config:type="integer">244</region_entry>
            </region>
            <size>1998618625</size>
          </partition>
          <partition>
            <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem>
            <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
            <mount>/opt</mount>
            <partition_id config:type="integer">131</partition_id>
            <partition_nr config:type="integer">6</partition_nr>
            <region config:type="list">
              <region_entry config:type="integer">2545</region_entry>
              <region_entry config:type="integer">1882</region_entry>
            </region>
            <size>15470788609</size>
          </partition>
          <partition>
            <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext2</filesystem>
            <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
            <mount>/boot</mount>
            <partition_id config:type="integer">131</partition_id>
            <partition_nr config:type="integer">1</partition_nr>
            <region config:type="list">
              <region_entry config:type="integer">0</region_entry>
              <region_entry config:type="integer">2</region_entry>
            </region>
            <size>8224769</size>
          </partition>
        </partitions>
---- </AUTOYAST GENERATED PARTITIONING SECTION> ----

However, if I try and use this file, I have a problem at installation
time. Just before autoyast normally tries to partition the disks, I
get a warning about /opt needing 2.02GB more space - please delete
some packages. At this point, if I switch to console 2 and fdisk -l
/dev/sda I see the primary and extended partitions that were there
when I created the reference profile.

If I switch back to the autoyast screen and select OK, the
partitioning begins. Once partitioning is finished, all I have is 4
partitions. The 4th partition is type 5, extended, which is what I was
expecting, but neither /var or /opt has been created in there.

I then changed this xml slightly to remove the region blocks, and I
specified a size of max for both partition 4 (the extended partition)
and partition 6 (/opt). I get exactly the same results with this
though.

Can anyone advise me how to do the following please:
1. Create both primary and extended partitions where the extended
partition takes up the rest of the disk after /, /boot and swap have
been extended.
and
2. Create logical partitions in the extended partition where the final
logical partition takes up all available space on the drive.

Regards,

-- 
Wayne Pascoe