Command: part or partition
- Either of these commands create a partition on the system and use
+ Either of these commands creates a partition on the system and uses
the following syntax:
part [mntpoint]
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
The mntpoint is
- where the partition will be mounted and must be of one of the
+ where the partition is mounted and must be in one of the
following forms:
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
swap:
- The created partition is used as swap space.
+ The created partition is used as swap space
@@ -74,13 +74,22 @@
partition to automatically be mounted.
Wic achieves this by adding entries to the filesystem table (fstab)
during image generation.
- In order for wic to generate a valid fstab, you must also provide
+ In order for Wic to generate a valid fstab, you must also provide
one of the --ondrive,
--ondisk, or
--use-uuid partition options as part of the
command.
- Here is an example using "/" as the mountpoint.
- The command uses "--ondisk" to force the partition onto the
+
+ The mount program must understand the PARTUUID syntax you use
+ with --use-uuid and non-root
+ mountpoint, including swap.
+ The busybox versions of these application are currently
+ excluded.
+
+ Here is an example that uses "/" as the
+ mountpoint.
+ The command uses --ondisk to force the
+ partition onto the
sdb disk:
part / --source rootfs --ondisk sdb --fstype=ext3 --label platform --align 1024
@@ -100,6 +109,14 @@
You do not need this option if you use
--source.
+
+ --fixed-size:
+ The exact partition size in MBytes.
+ You cannot specify with --size.
+ An error occurs when assembling the disk image if the
+ partition data is larger than
+ --fixed-size.
+ --source:
This option is a Wic-specific option that names the source
@@ -112,7 +129,7 @@
If you use --source rootfs, Wic
- creates a partition as large as needed and to fill it with
+ creates a partition as large as needed and fills it with
the contents of the root filesystem pointed to by the
-r command-line option or the
equivalent rootfs derived from the -e
@@ -131,8 +148,8 @@
-r command-line option or the
equivalent rootfs derived from the -e
command-line option.
- Exactly what those contents and filesystem type end up
- being are dependent on the given plug-in implementation.
+ Exactly what those contents are and filesystem type used are
+ dependent on the given plug-in implementation.
If you do not use the --source
@@ -174,7 +191,7 @@
--fsoptions:
Specifies a free-form string of options to be used when
mounting the filesystem.
- This string will be copied into the
+ This string is copied into the
/etc/fstab file of the installed
system and should be enclosed in quotes.
If not specified, the default string is "defaults".
@@ -192,9 +209,9 @@
--align (in KBytes):
- This option is a Wic-specific option that says to start a
- partition on an x KBytes
- boundary.
+ This option is a Wic-specific option that says to start
+ partitions on boundaries given
+ x KBytes.
--no-table:
@@ -203,11 +220,18 @@
causes it to become populated.
However, the partition is not added to the partition table.
+
+ --exclude-path:
+ This option is a Wic-specific option that excludes the given
+ relative path from the resulting image.
+ This option is only effective with the rootfs source
+ plug-in.
+ --extra-space:
This option is a Wic-specific option that adds extra space
after the space filled by the content of the partition.
- The final size can go beyond the size specified by the
+ The final size can exceed the size specified by the
--size option.
The default value is 10 Mbytes.
@@ -218,6 +242,11 @@
You must supply a value greater than or equal to "1".
The default value is "1.3".
+
+ --part-name:
+ This option is a Wic-specific option that specifies a name
+ for GPT partitions.
+ --part-type:
This option is a Wic-specific option that specifies the
@@ -238,6 +267,31 @@
This option is a Wic-specific option that specifies the
partition UUID.
+
+ --fsuuid:
+ This option is a Wic-specific option that specifies the
+ filesystem UUID.
+ You can generate or modify
+ WKS_FILE
+ with this option if a preconfigured filesystem UUID is
+ added to the kernel command line in the bootloader
+ configuration before you run Wic.
+
+
+ --system-id:
+ This option is a Wic-specific option that specifies the
+ partition system ID, which is a one byte long, hexadecimal
+ parameter with or without the 0x prefix.
+
+
+ --mkfs-extraopts:
+ This option specifies additional options to pass to the
+ mkfs utility.
+ Some default options for certain filesystems do not take
+ effect.
+ See Wic's help on kickstart
+ (i.e. wic help kickstart).
+