Dear Debian Users,
For quite some time, I am failing to make partman process a custom
expert recipe during an unattended (preseeded) installation.
I am setting up a VM with an 8000 MB disk space (single disk) that I
want to partition using LVM. However, every time the recipe runs, I end
up getting an error from partman which I don't understand:
> Failed to partition the selected disk
>This happened because the selected recipe does not contain any
partition that can be created on LVM volumes.
Here's my full recipe and other partman options
# partitions
d-i partman/choose_partition select finish
d-i partman/confirm boolean true
d-i partman/confirm_nooverwrite boolean true
d-i partman-auto/method string lvm
d-i partman-lvm/device_remove_lvm boolean true
d-i partman-lvm/confirm boolean true
d-i partman-lvm/confirm_nooverwrite boolean true
d-i partman-auto-lvm/new_vg_name string vg
d-i partman-md/device_remove_md boolean true
d-i partman-partitioning/confirm_write_new_label boolean true
d-i partman/default_filesystem string ext4
d-i partman-auto/expert_recipe string \
large-varlibdocker :: \
512 512 512 ext4 $primary{ } $lvmignore{ } label{ boot } method{
format } format{ } use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext4 } mountpoint{
/boot } . \
2048 2048 2048 linux-swap $lvm_ok{ } method{ swap } format{ }
in_vg{ vg } . \
1024 1024 1024 ext4 $lvm_ok{ } method{ format } format{ }
use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext4 } in_vg{ vg } lv_name{ root }
mountpoint{ / } . \
512 512 512 ext4 $lvm_ok{ } method{ format } format{ }
use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext4 } in_vg{ vg } lv_name{ tmp }
mountpoint{ /tmp } . \
512 512 512 ext4 $lvm_ok{ } method{ format } format{ }
use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext4 } in_vg{ vg } lv_name{ varlog }
mountpoint{ /var/log } . \
512 512 512 ext4 $lvm_ok{ } method{ format } format{ }
use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext4 } in_vg{ vg } lv_name{ backup }
mountpoint{ /backup } . \
512 513 -1 ext4 $lvm_ok{ } method{ format } format{ }
use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext4 } in_vg{ vg } lv_name{ varlibdocker }
mountpoint{ /var/lib/docker } .
For sanity's sake, I could get this recipe to work... (inspired from
lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/12/msg00651.html):
d-i partman-auto/expert_recipe string \
lvm-multi :: \
512 512 512 ext2 $primary{ } label{ boot } method{ format } format{
} use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext2 } mountpoint{ /boot } . \
2048 4096 4096 linux-swap $lvmok{ } method{ swap } format{ } . \
1024 20480 20480 ext4 $lvmok{ } method{ format } format{ }
use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext4 } mountpoint{ / } . \
1024 20480 20480 ext4 $lvmok{ } method{ format } format{ }
use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext4 } mountpoint{ /var } . \
64 64 64 ext4 $lvmok{ } method{ format } format{ } use_filesystem{
} filesystem{ ext4 } mountpoint{ /home } .
But I seem to be unable to modify it any further (like adding a
partition) without triggering the error mentioned above.
Any help or pointer appreciated...
Antoine
