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Some of the machines that I'm provisioning have a separate /dev/sdb to be used for /home, and some only have a single disk.

Is there a way I can set up preseed so that if /dev/sdb exists, it uses 100% of that for /home, but if it doesn't, it makes a /home partition on /dev/sda?

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Short answer: you can't.

Long answer: as far as I am aware, you will need to run some kind of early_command to read the current disks and echo the results of that to a file that partman will read later, presumably on /hd-media somewhere.

I have once found a program/script that would do this, I think, but my Google-fu does not seem to work right now =/

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  • Thanks. What I ended up doing was writing a little script for my postinstall which, if the 2nd disk is present, moves the contents of /home to that disk and then does all the necessary stuff (fstab, etc) to make that the new /home.
    – Daniel
    Mar 9, 2013 at 15:45

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