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Re: How to create a "hidden" partition using the partman auto recipes?



Marek Habersack wrote:
>   As in subject - I need to create a formatted partition on the installation
> drive which will not have a mountpoint using the auto recipes. I am building
> a custom "distro" for my company which is supposed to automatically install
> on the machine and we need such a hidden partition for machine recovery
> purposes. I've built the custom cd without problems, preseeding works
> wonderfully and the only problem is that single partition. Whenever the
> partman gets to it it warns about the partition not having a mountpoint and
> whether I want to go back to the partitioning menu or continue. Continuing
> works just fine, but I'd rather it not ask the question at all.

Have you considered preseeding the question?

> I've also tried assigning a mountpoint to it (/recovery) expecting that the
> installer will create it on the target filesystem for me, but that didn't
> work

That is certianly a bug.

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