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# If the system has free space you can choose to only partition that space.

# This is only honoured if partman-auto/method (below) is not set.

# Alternatives: custom, some_device, some_device_crypto, some_device_lvm.

#d-i partman-auto/init_automatically_partition select biggest_free

# Alternatively, you may specify a disk to partition. If the system has only

# one disk the installer will default to using that, but otherwise the device

# name must be given in traditional, non-devfs format (so e.g. /dev/sda

# and not e.g. /dev/discs/disc0/disc).

# For example, to use the first SCSI/SATA hard disk:

#d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/sda

# In addition, you’ll need to specify the method to use.

# The presently available methods are:

# - regular: use the usual partition types for your architecture

# - lvm: use LVM to partition the disk

# - crypto: use LVM within an encrypted partition d-i partman-auto/method string lvm

# If one of the disks that are going to be automatically partitioned

# contains an old LVM configuration, the user will normally receive a

# warning. This can be preseeded away...

d-i partman-lvm/device_remove_lvm boolean true

# The same applies to pre-existing software RAID array: d-i partman-md/device_remove_md boolean true

# And the same goes for the confirmation to write the lvm partitions. d-i partman-lvm/confirm boolean true

d-i partman-lvm/confirm_nooverwrite boolean true

# For LVM partitioning, you can select how much of the volume group to use

# for logical volumes.

#d-i partman-auto-lvm/guided_size string max

#d-i partman-auto-lvm/guided_size string 10GB

#d-i partman-auto-lvm/guided_size string 50%

# You can choose one of the three predefined partitioning recipes:

# - atomic: all files in one partition

# - home: separate /home partition

# - multi: separate /home, /var, and /tmp partitions

d-i partman-auto/choose_recipe select atomic

# Or provide a recipe of your own...

# If you have a way to get a recipe file into the d-i environment, you can

# just point at it.

#d-i partman-auto/expert_recipe_file string /hd-media/recipe

# If not, you can put an entire recipe into the preconfiguration file in one

# (logical) line. This example creates a small /boot partition, suitable

# swap, and uses the rest of the space for the root partition:

#d-i partman-auto/expert_recipe string \

# boot-root :: \

# 40 50 100 ext3 \

# If you just want to change the default filesystem from ext3 to something

# else, you can do that without providing a full recipe.

#d-i partman/default_filesystem string ext4

# The full recipe format is documented in the file partman-auto-recipe.txt

# included in the ’debian-installer’ package or available from D-I source

# repository. This also documents how to specify settings such as file

# system labels, volume group names and which physical devices to include

# in a volume group.

# This makes partman automatically partition without confirmation, provided

# that you told it what to do using one of the methods above. d-i partman-partitioning/confirm_write_new_label boolean true d-i partman/choose_partition select finish

d-i partman/confirm boolean true

d-i partman/confirm_nooverwrite boolean true

B.4.8.2. Partitioning using RAID

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