Z system guided partitioning, with separate paritions for everything, on dasd drives, fails with too many partitions
Bug #1683871 reported by
John George
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| debian-installer (Ubuntu) |
New
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Wishlist
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
During an Z system installation of 17.04 (Zesty) selecting the guided partitioning options result in a partitioning error, about too many partitions. please see the attached screen shots.
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| John George (jog) wrote | #1 |
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| Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in debian-installer (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
| summary: |
- Z system guided partitioning fails with too many partitions + Z system guided partitioning, with separate paritions for everything, on + dasd drives, fails with too many partitions |
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| John George (jog) wrote | #3 |
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you cannot use that option, with dasd drives. as dasd drives only support maximum three partitions..... and separate /home /var /tmp and / need 4.
one can use that option on e.g. multipath / zfcp drives; or kvm-qemu virtio drives.
i guess recipes should be modified to guard against offering that option; but do not that this option is not offered by default, have you changed the priority of debconf? Because there are countless paths in low priority d-i for shooting oneself in the foot.