Re: partman auto partitioning recipes

[Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg>]

On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 02:45:29PM +0100, William Oakley wrote:
> 
> Number 1.
> 
> It does not seem possible to set all partitions to be primary.  One of
> the partitions has to be extended.  Why?  Am I doing something wrong
> here?

It should be possible provided you don't create more than 3 partitions.
It is not possible to create 4 primary partitions due to limitation in
the algorithm of partman-auto.

If you think that it is not possible to create 3 primary partitions,
then this is probably an unknown bug.

> Number 2.
> 
> To ensure that the root partition is created as 8192Mb, I have to set it
> to 8500Mb or so.

This is because 8192*1024*1024 = 8589934592 =~ 8500 * 1000 * 1000.
Partman computes the partition sizes the same way as the hard disk
vendors - 1Mb means 10000000 bytes.

Anton Zinoviev