parted makes an ext3 / when i ask for an ext2 /boot

[Jeffrey Baker]

Binary package hint: parted

While attempting to install Jaunty Alpha 2 (amd64, desktop) on a ThinkPad X61 Tablet with a 32GB Samsung SATA disk, parted is incapable of creating ext2 partitions. To reproduce:

1) Use manual partitioning
2) Create new partition table
3) Create new primary partition, ext2, 100MB, mounted on /boot
4) Click OK
5) Observe that parted has helpfully created a 100MB ext3 volume mounted on /

The expected result, of course, is an ext2 volume mounted at /boot.

[Jeffrey Baker (jwbaker)]

Evidently this is gparted, not parted.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Given that the installer does not use gparted, this is somewhat unlikely.

What means did you use to observe that the created partition was ext3?

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Oh, I just noticed that you ran into bug 310083; that could well have had this kind of side-effect too. Can you reproduce this with Jaunty Alpha 3?

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