#443 PR merged: Resolved the following issues:

Labels: bug

andhoo opened issue at 2014-07-28 13:14:

Autoresize partitions is not working:

  1. grep error during autoresize
  2. can not find boot partition to exclude from resize.
    (it is not reliable to assume that the boot flag in
    partition table is set.)

I did test this modification in one situation and it solved the problem for me.

gdha commented at 2014-07-29 13:41:

Not sure what the original problem was you were having? Autoresizing was working for a very long time. Trying to understand why this is needed....

andhoo commented at 2014-07-29 14:40:

Some explanation:

file: usr/share/rear/layout/prepare/default/40_autoresize_disks.sh

Line 34,35: The "/boot" partition to exclude from resizing will not be found if the boot-flag in the partition table isn't set. Setting the boot-flag in Linux is not mandatory (it is originally for Microsoft OS's).
That's why it is not a good idea to test on the 6th field of the disklayout.conf file.
What I do is testing for "fs " which is more reliable.

Line 45: Booting the rescue ISO gave a "GREP" syntax error

gdha commented at 2014-07-30 09:08:

Ok thanks for the clarification. Will merge it, but it needs some broader tests so we're sure it works on all supported Linux versions.

[Export of Github issue for rear/rear.]