Re: persistent partition
My apologies - the binary.img generated by live-helper is a variable
size depending how stripped the core OS is and which additional programs
have been installed - so I shouldn't specify a size for it as you have
in your system - additionally it would would make reconfiguration
impossible for the linux newbies who will be the ones actually using all
of this.
My overall aim is to have a two partition USB drive - the first
partition is defined by the binary.img and the second partition is
defined by the space left over - to be used as the live-rw partition.
Some of the applications I have create (potentially) GBs of logs that
need storage, others can work happily with no persistant storage at all
so I want to get the partitioning all script based and flexible - which
is how I have it configured/working at present.
On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 23:37 -0700, Jordan Share wrote:
> David Cottrill wrote:
> > Thanks - I need to get out of having a "representative" disk because
> > I'll be working with many, many applications and disks.
>
> You still haven't actually specifically said what your goal is. :)
>
> For example, my goal, in the technique I described, is to take any size
> disk, make a standard sized /dev/sda1 and use the rest of the disk for
> /dev/sda2. (Which sounded to me like what you might be interested in.)
>
> Do you have a specific set of partitions and then a "rest-of" partition?
> Or an unknown set of partitions and a "rest-of" partition, etc? It is
> not clear what your goals/parameters are.
>
> > I guess I'll
> > have to settle for working out how to extract the information I need
> > from 'sfdisk -lm '
>
> I said "representative disk" to describe the original partitioning
> method, but really I suppose I meant "representative partitioning". I
> apply that sfdisk file to *any size* disk and it gives me the layout I
> want (~512MB /dev/sda1 and rest of the disk for /dev/sda2).
>
> I was suggesting that you take a disk (any size), and set up your
> partitions how you like them, then dump the partitioning, remove the
> "size=xxx" from the dump file, etc.
>
> Also, if you really must parse, you might have more accuracy with
> "sfdisk -d", since that gives you the output in integer sectors, rather
> than cylinders (which might be fractional). Plus, it is intended for
> parsing (by sfdisk, anyway. :)
>
> Jordan
>
>
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