Bug#568495: [patch] partman-auto-raid/README
Package: partman-auto-raid
Version: 15
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Hi,
I found what I think is a minor error in the partman-auto-raid/README
(the elements of the recipes should be separated by periods, not commas).
The attached corrects that and tries to clarify two parts of the text
I found confusing or too terse.
Please consider applying this patch.
Cheers
Vince
Index: trunk/packages/partman/partman-auto-raid/README
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--- trunk/packages/partman/partman-auto-raid/README (revision 62177)
+++ trunk/packages/partman/partman-auto-raid/README (working copy)
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
partman-auto/method to "raid" and using partman-auto-raid/recipe to tell
it how to construct the RAID array(s).
-The preseedable parameter partman-auto-raid/recipe should consist of comma
-separated recipes and recipes are of the form:
+The preseedable parameter partman-auto-raid/recipe should consist of
+recipes separated by periods (.). The recipes are of the form:
<raidtype> <devcount> <sparecount> <fstype> <mountpoint> <devices> <sparedevices>
@@ -12,9 +12,11 @@
array.
e.g.
-1 2 0 ext3 / /dev/sda1#/dev/sdb1 .
-1 2 0 swap / /dev/sda5#/dev/sdb5 .
-(but without the line break)
+d-i partman-auto-raid recipe string \
+ 1 2 0 ext3 / /dev/sda1#/dev/sdb1 . \
+ 1 2 0 swap - /dev/sda5#/dev/sdb5 .
+This must be written all on one line; if you write it across multiple lines
+you must use continuation characters.
This makes the first RAID device that was created by this udeb be a RAID1 of
two disks disc0/part1 and disc1/part1 and be formatted as ext3 and mounted
@@ -46,8 +48,17 @@
/dev/sda5#/dev/sdb5 \
.
-# Please note that RAID partitions are tagged as "lvmignore"
-# and LVM logical volumes as "defaultignore" and "lvmok".
+# In the expert_recipe, there is a stanza for each RAID partition
+# and each LVM partition.
+# The RAID partitions are tagged as "lvmignore", while
+# the LVM logical volumes as "defaultignore" and "lvmok".
+# The RAID partition containing the LVM volumes must be made big
+# enough to hold them all.
+# Note that in the example shown here the mountpoint for /boot
+# (which is not encapsulated within LVM) is specified in the
+# partman-auto-raid recipe, rather than in the corresponding
+# raid partition definition below.
+#
d-i partman-auto/expert_recipe string \
multiraid :: \
100 512 256 raid \
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