Bug#235194: multiple partitions on one mount point

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

On 27.II.2004 at 15:58 Joey Hess wrote:
> Package: partman
> Severity: normal
> 
> I told partman to set up hda1 as the root partition. Then I picked free
> space, and let it autopartion that, using the /, /home layout. But now
> in partman I have two partitions mounted as root, the one I did
> manually, and the automatically generated one.

I will make the autopartitioner to undo the hand-made operations at first.

> Looks like I can do the same thing manually. I think that partman should
> detect and refuse to allow multiple partitions with the same mount
> point.

Partman will refuse to commit this setting to the disk.  It is more
difficult to refuse it immediately and probably it doesn't worth the
extra work to implement this.

Anton Zinoviev

P.S. By the way, the partitioning schemes in partman-auto are only
     examples.  This package probably needs more usefull schemes.