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mrhobbeys

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Registered: 2012-06-26

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What happened to the auto option in the partition tool?

In the past installing Arch I thought I had an Auto option for partitioning. Am I wrong or am I in fact thinking of FreeBSD?

Last edited by mrhobbeys (2012-10-21 03:06:28)

WonderWoofy

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Re: What happened to the auto option in the partition tool?

It used to be in the Arch Installation Framework, but that lacks development so was removed.  Seriously though, you want a distro that gives you the ultimate in choices, yet you want someone to decide your partitioning for you?

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Re: What happened to the auto option in the partition tool?

AIF has been discontinued.  That was the functionality.  See the wiki for the modern alternative which is a manual partition step.

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mrhobbeys

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Re: What happened to the auto option in the partition tool?

Ok, Thanks for the quick reply. I wasn't sure if it was me or not.

mrhobbeys

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Re: What happened to the auto option in the partition tool?

Now I have run into the problem that makes me wish I had the automated version.

When I try to make the following

/boot Extended
/        Primary
/swap Extended < trying to add this one here I get error "It is not possible to create more than 4 primary partitions"

Before creating this my layout looks like:

/dev/sda1 (winxp) 72.06 GiB
/dev/sda2 (unallocated) 72.05 GiB
/dev/sda3 (fat32 - used for some quick boot function) 3.41 GiB
/dev/sda4 (unallocated) 49.56 MiB

I want my Arch to be like this

/boot   100 MiB
/          18  GB
/home  remaining ~42GB
/swap   1024 MiB
/var      10 GB
/tmp     1 GB

I was thinking of having a /usr but I don't think I have a legitimate need to do so. The error was generated using GParted from a LiveCD is it going to be easier just to use fdisk or similar?

Last edited by mrhobbeys (2012-10-21 03:50:19)

WonderWoofy

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Re: What happened to the auto option in the partition tool?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Partitioning

mrhobbeys

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Re: What happened to the auto option in the partition tool?

I got it now, thanks.