+ # if we repartition to the same as an old partition,
+ # we don't want any old fses hanging around.
+ for (( i=1; i <= lastn; i++ )); do
+ x=$(add-part $i)
+ [[ -e $x ]] || continue
+ count_down=10
+ # wipefs has failed, manual run works, google suggests timing issue
+ while ! wipefs -a $x; do
+ sleep 2
+ count_down=$((count_down - 1))
+ (( count_down > 0 )) || exit 1
+ done
+ done
+ done
+ fi
+ ### end wipefs
+
+
+ # When we have 2 disks of at least 100g difference in size,
+ # make an extra partition on the end of the bigger one.
+ even_big_part=false
+ even_diff_min=100000
+ if $even_raid; then
+ smalli=0
+ bigi=1
+ if (( $(dev-mib ${devs[0]}) >= $(dev-mib ${devs[1]}) )); then
+ smalli=1
+ bigi=0
+ fi
+ disk_mib=$(dev-mib ${devs[smalli]})
+ even_big_dev=${devs[bigi]}
+ even_big_mib=$(dev-mib $even_big_dev)
+ if (( even_big_mib - disk_mib > even_diff_min )); then
+ even_big_part=true
+ fi
+ fi
+
+ for dev in ${devs[@]}; do
+ if [[ $SPECIAL_DISK ]]; then
+ dev=$(devbyid $SPECIAL_DISK)
+ fi
+
+ # parted will round up the disk size. Do -1 so we can have
+ # fully 1MiB unit partitions for easy resizing of the last partition.
+ # Otherwise we would pass in -0 for the end argument for the last partition.
+ #
+ # Note: parted print error output is expected. example:
+ # Error: /dev/vda: unrecognised disk label
+ if ! $even_raid; then
+ disk_mib=$(dev-mib)
+ fi
+
+ boot_part_mib=$(( boot_mib / ${#boot_devs[@]} ))
+ boot2_part_mib=$(( boot2_mib / ${#boot_devs[@]} ))
+ root2_part_mib=$(( root2_mib / ${#root_devs[@]} ))
+ root_end=$(( disk_mib - root2_part_mib - swap_mib - boot_part_mib - boot2_part_mib ))
+ root2_end=$(( root_end + root2_part_mib ))
+ swap_end=$(( root2_end + swap_mib ))
+ boot_end=$(( swap_end + boot_part_mib ))
+
+ parted -s $dev mklabel gpt
+ # MiB because parted complains about alignment otherwise.
+ pcmd="parted -a optimal -s -- $dev"
+ # root partition, the main big one
+ $pcmd mkpart primary ext3 524MiB ${root_end}MiB
+ # without naming, systemd gives us misc errors like:
+ # dev-disk-by\x2dpartlabel-primary.device: Dev dev-disk-by\x2dpartlabel-primary.device appeared twice
+ $pcmd name $rootn root
+ # root2 partition
+ $pcmd mkpart primary ext3 ${root_end}MiB ${root2_end}MiB
+ $pcmd name $root2n root2
+ # normally a swap is type "linux-swap", but this is encrypted swap. using that
+ # label will confuse systemd.
+ # swap partition
+ $pcmd mkpart primary "" ${root2_end}MiB ${swap_end}MiB
+ $pcmd name $swapn swap
+ # boot partition
+ $pcmd mkpart primary "" ${swap_end}MiB ${boot_end}MiB
+ $pcmd name $bootn boot
+ # boot2 partition
+ $pcmd mkpart primary "" ${boot_end}MiB ${disk_mib}MiB
+ $pcmd name $boot2n boot2
+ # uefi partition. efi sucks, half a gig, rediculous.
+ $pcmd mkpart primary "fat32" 12MiB 524MiB
+ $pcmd name $efin efi
+ $pcmd set $efin esp on
+ # note, this is shown here: https://support.system76.com/articles/bootloader/
+ # but not mentioned https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/EFI_system_partition
+ # probably not needed
+ $pcmd set $bootn boot on
+ $pcmd set $boot2n boot on
+ # i only need a few k, but googling min size,
+ # I found someone saying that gparted required
+ # required at least 8 because of their hard drive cylinder size.
+ # And 8 is still very tiny.
+ # grub_ext partition
+ $pcmd mkpart primary "ext2" 4MiB 12MiB
+ $pcmd name $grub_extn grubext
+ # gpt ubuntu cloud image uses ~4 mb for this partition. fai uses 1 MiB.
+ # so, I use 3, whatever.
+ # note: parted manual saying cheap flash media
+ # should to start at 4.
+ # biols grub partition
+ $pcmd mkpart primary "" 1MiB 4MiB
+ $pcmd name $bios_grubn biosgrub
+ $pcmd set $bios_grubn bios_grub on
+ if $even_big_part && [[ $dev == "$even_big_dev" ]]; then
+ $pcmd mkpart primary ext3 ${disk_mib}MiB ${even_big_mib}MiB
+ $pcmd name $even_bign even_big
+ fi
+
+ # the mkfs failed before on a vm, which prompted me to add
+ # sleep .1
+ # then it failed again on a physical machine
+ # with:
+ # Device /dev/disk/by-id/foo doesn't exist or access denied,
+ # so I added a wait until it existed.
+ # Then I added the mkfs.ext2, which claimed to succeed,
+ # but then couldn't be found upon reboot. In that case we didn't
+ # wait at all. So I've added a 3 second minimum wait.
+ secs=0
+ while [[ ! -e $(bios_grubdev) ]] && (( secs < 10 )); do
+ sleep 1
+ secs=$((secs +1))