On 5/27/23 07:42, mick.crane wrote:
On 2023-05-27 10:33, Michael wrote:
On Friday, 26 May 2023 11:47:04 CEST, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
(And as mick.crane already noticed, it is a bit awkward to create an
extended partiton 2 only to fill it nearly up with logical partition 5.
I wonder what entity decided to do so.)
on my debian 11 test vm with default installation it is exactly the same:
root@debian11test:~# fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 20 GiB, 21474836480 bytes, 41943040 sectors
Disk model: VBOX HARDDISK Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x2e739d33
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 * 2048 39942143 39940096 19G 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 39944190 41940991 1996802 975M 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 39944192 41940991 1996800 975M 82 Linux swap / Solaris
greetings...
I just installed bookworm on another SSD disk.
The installer said it was going to partition the disk one for the / and
another for swap
After the installation the extended partition was there.
That sounds like d-i did what you told it to do:
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch06s03.en.html#di-partition
6.3.4.2. Guided Partitioning
All files in one partition
Is this some attribute of pre formatted SSDs
Unlikely.
I didn't zero the disk as my old systemrescueCD CD failed to
successfully boot.
I'll get a more recent copy.
mick
d-i includes a rescue shell. You can use dd(1) to zero disks.
David
