Package: partman Severity: normal Tags: d-i I've gotten confused using partman several times, and ended up with unusable free space because I had too many primary partitions. I think a simple change can make it much harder to mess this up. Let me explain the most recent time I messed up. I created a root I understand that when the first partition is made, partman creates an extended partition table after it automatically. Next I created a second partition, for /home. It asked me if I wanted the second partition to be primary or logical, but the default was primary, and like a fool I took it. This meant that the logical partition table was now unusable. I went on to create more partitions, and ran out of primary partitions, and could not make a logical one. So my mistake was back when I took the default of primary for my /home partition. If it had instead defaulted to logical, I would have used that, and done the same for my other partitions, and not ran out of partition entries. -- System Information: Found unknown policy: ('1', 'pool')Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.25 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US -- see shy jo
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