This package adds to the main partitioning menu of partman an item `Automatically partition the storage devices'. For each free space it also adds an item `Automatically partition this free space'. For a description of the format and use of recipe files and other important documentation, see installer/doc/devel/partman-auto-recipe.txt Note that for architecture-specific recipe files, partman-auto will look in the following places for recipes: /lib/partman/recipes--/* /lib/partman/recipes-/* /lib/partman/recipes/* Partman-auto will use the recipes from the first of these directories that exists.