Description of problem: The disc layout/formatting utility is silly Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): FC4 How reproducible: guaranteed Steps to Reproduce: just try to organise a sensible disc layout 1. 2. 3. Actual results: randomly disposed partitions with the swap partition, in particular, put in the worst possible place. Expected results: The partitions placed in the actual order that they were input. Usually, if you are configuring in `expert' mode, the human knows better than any machine. Additional info: If the disk-druid is going to be at all useful, it could do worse (in fact it does) if it were to keep the partitions '/', swap and '/usr' together in that order, regardless of any other partitions. Secondly, alien partitions should be left where they are placed. Finally, why no xfs partitions on a ppc?
The ordering is based on putting the biggest partition in the biggest freespace and continuing to be able to optimize growing partitions. Doing otherwise leads to incredibly non-obvious user interaction. If you have a deep care of exactly how partitions are laid out, you can use parted from tty2.