Bug#297201: partman-auto: no documented way to leave free space on a disk

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

Package: partman-auto
Version: 40
Severity: wishlist

I can't find a way to leave free space on a disk after autopartitioning,
for example by saying "create a 4GB /, 1GB swap, and the rest free".

I tried putting a partition at the end of my recipe with minimum size 0,
priority and maximum size 1TB, and filesystem "free", which was the best
guess I could come up with from reading the perform_recipe source (which
could *really* do with some comments ...), but this resulted in the two
other partitions I'd requested being created followed by a partition
with no type filling the rest of the disk, like this:

  #1 primary    4.1 GB   f ext3       /
  #5 logical    1.0 GB   f swap       swap
  #6 logical   34.9 GB

If there's a way to do this, it'd be great to have it documented in
partman-auto-recipe.txt.

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]