Package: partman-auto-raid Version: 15 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch
Hi, I found what I think is a minor error in the partman-auto-raid/README (the elements of the recipes should be separated by periods, not commas). The attached corrects that and tries to clarify two parts of the text I found confusing or too terse. Please consider applying this patch. Cheers Vince
Index: trunk/packages/partman/partman-auto-raid/README =================================================================== --- trunk/packages/partman/partman-auto-raid/README (revision 62177) +++ trunk/packages/partman/partman-auto-raid/README (working copy) @@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ partman-auto/method to "raid" and using partman-auto-raid/recipe to tell it how to construct the RAID array(s). -The preseedable parameter partman-auto-raid/recipe should consist of comma -separated recipes and recipes are of the form: +The preseedable parameter partman-auto-raid/recipe should consist of +recipes separated by periods (.). The recipes are of the form: <raidtype> <devcount> <sparecount> <fstype> <mountpoint> <devices> <sparedevices> @@ -12,9 +12,11 @@ array. e.g. -1 2 0 ext3 / /dev/sda1#/dev/sdb1 . -1 2 0 swap / /dev/sda5#/dev/sdb5 . -(but without the line break) +d-i partman-auto-raid recipe string \ + 1 2 0 ext3 / /dev/sda1#/dev/sdb1 . \ + 1 2 0 swap - /dev/sda5#/dev/sdb5 . +This must be written all on one line; if you write it across multiple lines +you must use continuation characters. This makes the first RAID device that was created by this udeb be a RAID1 of two disks disc0/part1 and disc1/part1 and be formatted as ext3 and mounted @@ -46,8 +48,17 @@ /dev/sda5#/dev/sdb5 \ . -# Please note that RAID partitions are tagged as "lvmignore" -# and LVM logical volumes as "defaultignore" and "lvmok". +# In the expert_recipe, there is a stanza for each RAID partition +# and each LVM partition. +# The RAID partitions are tagged as "lvmignore", while +# the LVM logical volumes as "defaultignore" and "lvmok". +# The RAID partition containing the LVM volumes must be made big +# enough to hold them all. +# Note that in the example shown here the mountpoint for /boot +# (which is not encapsulated within LVM) is specified in the +# partman-auto-raid recipe, rather than in the corresponding +# raid partition definition below. +# d-i partman-auto/expert_recipe string \ multiraid :: \ 100 512 256 raid \
