Bug 683227

Summary:	Cannot create a 4th primary partition
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Andrew Gormanly <a.gormanly>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	15	CC:	anaconda-maint-list, jonathan, vanmeeuwen+fedora
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Description Andrew Gormanly 2011-03-08 21:17:02 UTC

Description of problem:
Trying to create a 4th primary partition in the F15 Alpha installer fails, even with "Force to be a primary partition" selected

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try "Create", step through
2. Check "Force to be a primary partition"
3.
  
Actual results:
It creates an extended partition anyway


Expected results:
It creates a primary partition

Additional info:
Drive is a 1.5TB Seagate ST1500DL003, has 4k sectors

Comment 1 David Lehman 2011-03-08 21:59:05 UTC

I just finished a test in which I successfully created a fourth primary partition using the F15-Alpha installer.

Please attach the following logs from your attempted install:

  (collect them from vt2)

  /tmp/anaconda.log
  /tmp/storage.log
  /tmp/syslog

Comment 2 Andrew Gormanly 2011-03-09 22:21:46 UTC

I'd deleted these, so have tried to reproduce tonight but am unable to: creation succeeds.

I was trying last night to put 3 primary partitions into the space I'd left at the start of /dev/sdb in the system: creating a 500MB ext4 sdb1 for /boot worked, as did a 240GB PV as sdb3, but trying to put a 8GB swap as sdb4 between sdb3 and sdb2 on disk failed (partitions are not in disk order) - it would try to create an extended partition to put the swap partition into, even with the force primary box checked.

Tonight, the installer allows the creation of the swap partition in the same gap, though I've not deleted sdb1 and sdb3 so it's not the same scenario.

Bug should be closed, I guess.