This allows preseeding of a fully configured RAIDed system by setting

partman-auto/method to "raid" and using partman-auto-raid/recipe to tell

it how to construct the RAID array(s).
The preseedable parameter partman-auto-raid/recipe should consist of
recipes separated by periods ("."). The recipes are of the form:
<raidtype> <devcount> <sparecount> <fstype> <mountpoint> <devices> <sparedevices
>
where <devices> is a list of the devices to make up the RAID and
<sparedevices> is a list of the spare devices in the array; devices are
separated by hashes ("#").
For example:
d-i partman-auto-raid recipe string \
1 2 0 ext3 / /dev/sda1#/dev/sdb1 . \
1 2 0 swap - /dev/sda5#/dev/sdb5 .
This must be written all on one line; if you write it across multiple lines
you must use continuation characters (as in the example).
This makes the first RAID device that was created by this udeb be a RAID1 of
two disks disc0/part1 and disc1/part1 and be formatted as ext3 and mounted
on /. The second is also a RAID1 and used as swap (and the mountpoint
ignored).
-- Simon Huggins <huggie@earth.li>
sponsored by Black Cat Networks http://www.blackcatnetworks.co.uk/
It is also possible to preseed LVM over RAID. The following example will
create a RAID 1 setup on two hard drives with:
/dev/md0 as /boot (ext3)
/dev/md1 as a LVM physical volume
/dev/mapper/<hostname>-root as / (ext3)
/dev/mapper/<hostname>-swap_1 as swap
/dev/mapper/<hostname>-home as /home (ext3)
--- 8< --d-i partman-auto/method string raid
d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/sda /dev/sdb
# raidid can be anything, as long as it doesn't contain spaces or slashes
# and matches something in raidid{ } in partman-auto/expert_recipe. You can
# use hash separated lists of ordinary device names instead if you prefer.
d-i partman-auto-raid/recipe string
\
1 2 0 ext3 /boot raidid=1 .
\
1 2 0 lvm - raidid=2 .
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#

In the expert_recipe, there is a stanza for each RAID partition

and each LVM partition.
The RAID partitions are tagged as "lvmignore", while
the LVM logical volumes as "defaultignore" and "lvmok".
The RAID partition containing the LVM volumes must be made big
enough to hold them all.
Note that in the example shown here the mountpoint for /boot
(which is not encapsulated within LVM) is specified in the
partman-auto-raid recipe, rather than in the corresponding
raid partition definition below.

#
d-i partman-auto/expert_recipe string
multiraid ::
100 512 256 raid
$lvmignore{ }
$primary{ }
method{ raid }
raidid{ 1 }
.
900 5000 4000 raid
$lvmignore{ }
method{ raid }
raidid{ 2 }
.
700 5000 4000 ext3
$defaultignore{ }
$lvmok{ }
method{ format }
format{ }
use_filesystem{ }
filesystem{ ext3 }
mountpoint{ / }
.
64 512 300% linux-swap
$defaultignore{ }
$lvmok{ }
method{ swap }
format{ }
.
100 1000 1000000000 ext3
$defaultignore{ }
$lvmok{ }
method{ format }
format{ }
use_filesystem{ }
filesystem{ ext3 }
mountpoint{ /home }
.
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