Bug#271278: [i386] [20040911] Problems with partitionning

[Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg>]

On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 08:51:19PM +0100, Julien Danjou wrote:
> > 
> > Why partman/parted numbers partitions in this way is another story.  In
> > general this is because parted tries not to change the partition numbers
> > if possible.  When you removed you partitions there was no choice but
> > latter when you created hda7 there was no need to renumber hda5 and hda6
> > as cfdisk would do.
> 
> Thanks, that's a good explication.
> Maybe some options to reorder numbers of partitions could be add to
> partman ? It should be useful.

I agree but this depends on parted, not partman.

Anton Zinoviev