Re: Improving install partitioning
On Thu 30 Nov 2000, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
> Paul Slootman <paul@murphy.nl> writes:
>
> > I've once hacked up a partitioning utility which you can tell
> > "I want partitions of 16MB, 64MB (swap), 500MB, and the rest of free space".
> > It did this non-interactively; [...]
>
> If all you're looking for in non-interactive partitioning, have a look
> at sfdisk. You just feed it your desired partitioning through stdin.
sfdisk isn't packaged?!
> Give the debian installer a few off the shelf partitioning schemes the
> user can choose from or let her cook something up herself in guru
> mode, feed it to sfdisk and you're done.
>
> Hmm, don't know how flexible sfdisk is wrt relative partition sizes,
> but I guess most of the shelf thingies can use absolute sizes anyway.
The most useful thing about my little tool was that you could designate
a partition to be the size of what's still free at that point; no
worrying about off-by-one erorrs in shellscript calculations :-)
Paul Slootman
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