(Solved) Bash Challenge to Bash Guru's

[VastOne]

I am working on removing swap from the VSIDO installer as it is more of a nuisance than a help

I have ran into a issue with removing it that I am hoping some of you Bash guru's can assist with

The installer is a basic bash script and here is the issue... I have included only the pertinent part

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if [ "$PARTDRIVE" = "Exit" ];

$PARTITIONPROG /dev/$PARTDRIVE

#find the swap partition
#TARGETSWAP=`fdisk -l | grep swap | awk '{print $1}' | cut -d "/" -f3`
#TARGETSWAP=`echo $TARGETSWAP | sed -r "s/\/dev\///g"`
#for i in $TARGETSWAP; do
# swappart="$i"
# swappartsize=`grep -m 1 "$i" /proc/partitions | awk '{print $3}'`
# swappartmenu="$swappartmenu $swappart $swappartsize"
#done

#SWAP=""
#while [ "$SWAP" = "" ]
#do
#SWAP=`$DIALOGMENU $TITLE"$TITLETEXT" $MENU  $TEXT"Please select a swap partition to use.\nIf the only option you see is to Quit the installer then no swap partitions were found." Exit "Quit the installer" $swappartmenu`
#done

#SWAP=`echo $SWAP | cut -d "|" -f 1`

#if [ "$SWAP" = "Exit" ]; then
#  $DIALOG $TITLE"$TITLETEXT" $MSGBOX $TEXT"Quitting the installer now."
#  exit 1
#fi
#choose the partition to install to
CKLIVE=`mount | grep "live" | grep -v "loop" | awk '{print $1}' | awk -F "/" '{print $3}'`
PARTITIONS=`cat /proc/partitions | grep -v "$CKLIVE" | grep -v "loop" | grep -v "sr0" | awk '{print $4}' | grep "[0-9]"`
PARTINSTTEMP=`echo $PARTITIONS | sed -r "s/$SWAP//"`
PARTINST=`echo $PARTINSTTEMP`
for i in $PARTINST; do
tempsize=`grep -m 1 "$i" /proc/partitions | awk '{print $3}'`
if [ "$tempsize" = "1" ]; then
PARTINST=`echo $PARTINST | sed -r "s/$i//"`
fi
done


for i in $PARTINST; do
  part="$i"
  partsize=`grep -m 1 "$i" /proc/partitions | awk '{print $3}'`
  partmenu="$partmenu $part $partsize"
done

TARGETPART=""
while [ "$TARGETPART" = "" ]
do
TARGETPART=`$DIALOGMENU $TITLE"$TITLETEXT" $MENU  $TEXT"Please select a partition to install the root system to.\nIf the only option you see is to Quit the installer then no partitions were found." Exit "Quit the installer" $partmenu`
done

TARGETPART=`echo $TARGETPART | cut -d "|" -f 1`

if [ "$TARGETPART" = "Exit" ]; then
  $DIALOG $TITLE"$TITLETEXT" $MSGBOX $TEXT"Quitting the installer now."
  exit 1
fi

What you see commented out in the beginning is the removal of swap from the script.  This in fact works but creates another issue that I have spent all morning trying to identify and it is escaping my wisdom

The second half is where a user would create the partition to install / (root) on.  When the swap part is commented out, there is no partition shown to install / to.  If I put the swap stuff back in, every thing works as it should

The challenge is for anyone to identify why and what the correction would be

If you want the entire bash installer, let me know

Thanks

VastOne

[VastOne]

aiBo' solved this for me on the IRC with the following

changing

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PARTINSTTEMP=`echo $PARTITIONS | sed -r "s/$SWAP//"`

to

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PARTINSTTEMP=`echo $PARTITIONS`

Thanks aiBo'!

[TeoBigusGeekus]

Glad you've found it VastOne!