Bug#256599: misaligned columns in partition overview
On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 09:16:01AM -0700, Joshua Kwan wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 11:31:48AM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> > * Joshua Kwan <joshk@triplehelix.org> [2004-06-27 19:09]:
> > > Notice how sda1's row is misaligned because it lacks a 'primary' or
> > > 'logical' label. This was confusing to me because I thought that / would
> > > not be formatted for some reason until I looked a bit closer.
> >
> > Any idea why it doesn't show primary or logical?
>
> I'm not sure. I had razed the partition table and created a primary
> partition spanning the entire drive, so I expect it would have said
> primary for sure.
I guess that the first hard disk had a partition table with type "sun"
(it doesn't support primary and logical partitions) and the second had a
"msdos" partition table.
On a partition tables without primary and logical partitions partman
doesn't show primary/logical column in order to save space on the row
for other things (for example for partition names). This is not a big
problem for hard disks as it is not usual to use on one system different
types of partition tables. It is a problem for the LVM and RAID
"partitions" but the support of LVM and RAID in partman needs
reimplementation anyway.
Anton Zinoviev
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