Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 366041
anaconda manual partition weridness
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:12:21 EST
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! Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: I tested it with Fedora 8 test 3 and Fedora 8 RC3 on two systems (not in Virtal Machines) Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: 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.
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.
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.