Bug 366041

Summary:	anaconda manual partition weridness
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Valent Turkovic <valent.turkovic>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
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Description Valent Turkovic 2007-11-04 19:35:29 UTC

Description of problem:
In manual partition mode anaconda randomly (at least it look that way to me)
sorts partitions.

I can't manually partition a hard disk with anaconda and make partition in some
particular order; ie. I want 
/sda1 with 8GB
/sda2 (swap) - 3GB
/sda3 - 20gb
/sda4 - extended 
/sda5- 8GB
/sda6 - 10GB
/sda7 - 8GB
/sda8 - 40GB

but anaconda randomly reorganizes and mixes the order or partitions!

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How reproducible:
I tested it with Fedora 8 test 3 and Fedora 8 RC3 on two systems (not in Virtal
Machines)

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Expected results:
I expect that each new added partition goes on the end of existing stack of
partitions, not on some random place!

Additional info:
If you need more feedback just tell me.

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2007-11-05 15:52:55 UTC

The ordering is based on the size as well as what the mountpoint is.  This is
needed so that you can have multiple partitions set to "grow" and maximizing the
space used for each.

Comment 2 Valent Turkovic 2007-11-05 19:24:34 UTC

How can anaconda know what each partition is, if eachone has same filetype, ie.
ext3. This makes no sense to me, especially because it is called "manual
partitioning". I wan't to make my own partition scheme, and not that it gets
reorganized in a way that it doesn't make sense to me.

This should be called "assisted partitioning" and there should be a real "manual
partition" mode.