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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
