Description of Problem: When you make swap partitions in fdisk and then go into Disk Druid to assign mount points, Disk Druid happily says "I found a swap partition! Would you like me to format it for you?" and goes about doing just that -- no matter how large the swap partition is. For example, if one uses fdisk to create an 8 gig swap partition, Disk Druid happily formats and uses it, even though one could not create such a large swap partition in Disk Druid alone. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How Reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. Use fdisk to create a >2GB swap partition 2. go into disk druid to assign mount points 3. click ok when prompted to format the swap partition Actual Results: Voila, one has a large swap partition. Expected Results: "I'm sorry, we're going to have to cut your slightly oversized swap partition down to 2 gigs." Additional Information:
I don't know, it may be better to say that we won't format a swap partition > 2GB. They can go back into fdisk and fix it if they want to. I'd be reluctant to cut it down to 2GB without any sort of override from the user. Perhaps we could simply take the partition and cut it into 2GB slices. That way, instead of one 8GB swap, we'd slice it up into 4 2GB swap partitions. katzj, what do you think?
I just asked Zeke to file it so that we could make sure and do something about it for Hampton. Really, it falls into the larger class of bugs called "fdisk/disk druid don't interact well"
Deferring to future release.
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.