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