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Re: Preseed: Expert recipe with LVM in partman-auto fails to format disk

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On Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 5:49 PM Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com>
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> On Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 4:39 PM Antoine Mazeas <antoine@karthanis.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear Debian Users,
>>
>> For quite some time, I am failing to make partman process a custom
>> expert recipe during an unattended (preseeded) installation.
>>
>> I am setting up a VM with an 8000 MB disk space (single disk) that I
>> want to partition using LVM. However, every time the recipe runs, I end
>> up getting an error from partman which I don't understand:
>>
>>  > Failed to partition the selected disk
>>
>>  >This happened because the selected recipe does not contain any
>> partition that can be created on LVM volumes.
>>
>> Here's my full recipe and other partman options
>>
>> ....
>>
>
> What is the meaning of the $lvmignore keyword on this entry right below?
> It's the only time it appears here.
> And it's not present in your 2nd example that does work.
>

This may not be related, but notice also that the primary /boot which fails
is an ext4 filesystem. But the example which succeeds, that one filesystem
only is ext2, the rest are ext4 like yours.


>    large-varlibdocker :: \
>>      512 512 512 ext4 $primary{ } $lvmignore{ } label{ boot } method{
>> format } format{ } use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext4 } mountpoint{
>> /boot } . \
>>      2048 2048 2048 linux-swap $lvm_ok{ } method{ swap } format{ }
>> in_vg{ vg } . \
>>      1024 1024 1024 ext4 $lvm_ok{ } method{ format } format{ }
>> use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext4 } in_vg{ vg } lv_name{ root }
>> mountpoint{ / } . \
>>      512 512 512 ext4 $lvm_ok{ } method{ format } format{ }
>> use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext4 } in_vg{ vg } lv_name{ tmp }
>> mountpoint{ /tmp } . \
>>      512 512 512 ext4 $lvm_ok{ } method{ format } format{ }
>> use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext4 } in_vg{ vg } lv_name{ varlog }
>> mountpoint{ /var/log } . \
>>      512 512 512 ext4 $lvm_ok{ } method{ format } format{ }
>> use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext4 } in_vg{ vg } lv_name{ backup }
>> mountpoint{ /backup } . \
>>      512 513 -1 ext4 $lvm_ok{ } method{ format } format{ }
>> use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext4 } in_vg{ vg } lv_name{ varlibdocker }
>> mountpoint{ /var/lib/docker } .
>>
>>
>> For sanity's sake, I could get this recipe to work... (inspired from
>> lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/12/msg00651.html):
>>
>> d-i partman-auto/expert_recipe string \
>>    lvm-multi :: \
>>      512 512 512 ext2 $primary{ } label{ boot } method{ format } format{
>> } use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext2 } mountpoint{ /boot } . \
>>      2048 4096 4096 linux-swap $lvmok{ } method{ swap } format{ } . \
>>      1024 20480 20480 ext4  $lvmok{ } method{ format } format{ }
>> use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext4 } mountpoint{ / } . \
>>      1024 20480 20480 ext4  $lvmok{ } method{ format } format{ }
>> use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext4 } mountpoint{ /var } . \
>>      64 64 64 ext4  $lvmok{ } method{ format } format{ } use_filesystem{
>> } filesystem{ ext4 } mountpoint{ /home } .
>>
>>
>> But I seem to be unable to modify it any further (like adding a
>> partition) without triggering the error mentioned above.
>>
>> Any help or pointer appreciated...
>>
>> Antoine
>>
>>
>>

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Preseed: Expert recipe with LVM in partman-auto fails to format disk Antoine Mazeas <antoine@karthanis.net> - 2021-01-22 23:40 +0100
  Re: Preseed: Expert recipe with LVM in partman-auto fails to format disk Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2021-01-23 00:50 +0100
    Re: Preseed: Expert recipe with LVM in partman-auto fails to format disk Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2021-01-23 01:00 +0100
  Re: Preseed: Expert recipe with LVM in partman-auto fails to format  disk Antoine Mazeas <antoine@karthanis.net> - 2021-01-23 16:40 +0100
    Re: Preseed: Expert recipe with LVM in partman-auto fails to format  disk Antoine Mazeas <antoine@karthanis.net> - 2021-01-23 19:40 +0100
      Re: Preseed: Expert recipe with LVM in partman-auto fails to format  disk Antoine Mazeas <antoine@karthanis.net> - 2021-01-27 15:10 +0100

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