Bug#326658: partman shrinks extended partition, breaks DOS compatibility

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 11:02:07PM +0200, Lars Helgeland wrote:
> Package: installation-reports
> 
> During install of Sarge from DVD unto an empty, prepartitioned IDE
> harddrive, I chose Manually edit partition table, since there was no
> choice to escape partitioning altogether.  Afterwards I found that
> my extended partition had been shrunk by 62 sectors to make room for
> a tiny amount of free space ahead of it, and that the first logical
> partition -- an (unformatted) FAT32 partition -- had had its start
> sector changed from 63 to 1.
> 
> I suspect this was caused by the call to minimize_extended_partition()
> in command_partitions() (in parted_server.c from partman v63 sources).
> 
> In any case I found it disconcerting and unwelcome, since the only way
> to reclaim the freed space and restore DOS compatibility I could think of
> was to delete the affected logical partition and create a new one
> in cfdisk that incorporated all the free space.

Can you please test one of the daily-sid-builds, which use parted 1.6.24 and
confirm that this problem is still there, or did go away ? 

Also, can you go to console 2 and check if using the parted tool directly
causes the same problem, or if it is a partman-only bug ? 

Friendly,

Sven Luther