Bug 453813 - installer plays with partition ordering
Summary: installer plays with partition ordering
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 410011
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: 9
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-07-02 18:10 UTC by David Woodhouse
Modified: 2008-08-06 19:35 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-08-06 19:35:38 UTC
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2008-07-02 18:15 UTC, David Woodhouse
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Description David Woodhouse 2008-07-02 18:10:27 UTC
I'm trying to set up a couple of disks in RAID1, each with a set of partitions.

I tried the 'clone disk' option, but the partitions on sdb ended up in a
_different_ order to those on sda.

I cloned it again to sdc, since I happened to have a third matching disk. That
seemed OK -- at least sdb matched sdc. But I'd forgotten to add a swap
partition. And now I've added swap, all three disks are different.

It would be useful if the installer gave us the option of _numbering_ partitions
as we want them. But getting them in the same order on each disk, when the set
of partitions is identical, would be nice. Getting three _different_ answers for
the same set of partitions is particularly impressive :)

I have four partitions on each disk, and I want them all to be primary
partitions. I'm a little surprised that it defaults to using an extended
partition when there are only four. When I edit a partition and select 'force to
be a primary partition', the installer seems to _forget_ that the partition in
question was already restricted to a certain disk, which I had set earlier while
trying to sort it out.

Comment 1 David Woodhouse 2008-07-02 18:15:02 UTC
Created attachment 310835 [details]
screen shot

Comment 2 David Woodhouse 2008-07-02 19:11:13 UTC
And now it's doing a RAID resync on the whole terabyte. While sitting at the
'install finished. you can reboot now' screen. Is that just a limitation of RAID?

Comment 3 Chris Lumens 2008-08-06 19:35:38 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 410011 ***


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