From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030630 Description of problem: Ok installing FC2 Test1 in Custom mode and choosing Disk Druid. I have /dev/hdg (80Gb HD) which is completely empty. New /boot 40 Mb --> /dev/hdg1 New SWAP 1024 Mb --> /dev/hdg2 New / 300 Mb --> /dev/hdg3 New LVM PV 55000 Mb and I get: /boot /dev/hdg1 LVM PV /dev/hdg2 SWAP /dev/hdg3 Extended /dev/hdg4 / /dev/hdg5 Why is the LVM PV created in /dev/hdg2 instead of /dev/hdg5? Also is there a way to indicate the partition must be created as a logical one in the Extended primary partition. Ideally I want: /boot /dev/hdg1 Extended /dev/hdg4 SWAP /dev/hdg5 / /dev/hdg6 LVM PV /dev/hdg7 I don't see any way to do that at this stage of the installation (except if I use fdisk before starting the install process to create these partitions the way I want) The "Force partition to be created as Primary" tick box does not seem to have any effect... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install on a blank hd 2. create a /boot on /dev/hda1 3. create a swap on /dev/hda2 4. create a / on /dev/hda3 5. create a LVM PV on the rest of the disk Actual Results: /boot /dev/hda1 LVM PV /dev/hda2 SWAP /dev/hda3 Extended /dev/hda4 / /dev/hda5 Expected Results: /boot /dev/hda1 SWAP /dev/hda2 / /dev/hda3 Extended /dev/hda4 LVM PV /dev/hda5 Additional info: To bypass this problem, I have to create the partition the way I want using fdisk before running FC2 Test1 installtion procedure.
This isn't a bug. The partitions aren't committed to disk until you hit next. We reorder them to optimize usage of the disk with growing partitions, etc
I fail to see the "optimize usage" trick... When trying to get more info for bug# 118787 I started again with a blank /dev/hdg disk. I want to get: /boot /dev/hdg1 80Mb EXTENDED /dev/hdg4 (all disk) swap /dev/hdg5 1024Mb / /dev/hdg6 300Mb LVM PV /dev/hdg7 55000Mb And it's not possible for 2 reasons: - automatic re-ordering (I'm interested by te logic here...) - impossibility to create the extended partition myself My fdisk /dev/hdg Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdg1 * 1 10 80293+ 83 Linux /dev/hdg2 11 7022 56323890 8e Linux LVM /dev/hdg3 7023 7153 1052257+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hdg4 7154 9729 20691720 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hdg5 7154 7191 305203+ 83 Linux which is not the partitioning I want. So if this is a feature that means everytime I want to create partitions to install Fedora Core I'll have to use fdisk first to get what I want. I personally think that's a bug... but as I said maybe I fail to see the obvious here ;)