Ubuntu
gparted package

should create logicals automatically when no more primaries are available

Bug #50360 reported by Daniel O'Donnell
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gparted (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Medium
DaveThacker

Bug Description

Binary package hint: ubiquity

When you are manually partitioning a HD and have installed four primary partitions, right clicking on the free space causes an error, because ubiquity is trying to install a fifth partition. A warning window comes up telling you that you can only install four partitions.

What is going on, I think, is that right clicking and choosing "new" invokes the partitioner with "primary" (the default) already chosen. What should happen is that after the third primary partition, Ubuiquity should make extended the default.

At any rate, the partitioner in Breezy handled this better: when you used up your primary partitions, it automatically started logical ones.

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

gparted should really be a lot cleverer here. Fortunately, (a) you can still use the text-mode partitioner if you use the alternate install CD, and (b) we plan to rewrite the desktop CD partitioner for Edgy (http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Ubiquity/AdvancedPartitionerRewrite); the rewrite won't suffer from this problem.

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Daniel O'Donnell (daniel-odonnell) wrote : Re: [Bug 50360] Re: Manual partitioner reports error without offering solution

Great. This sounds exactly like what's necessary.

On Sun, 2006-25-06 at 11:50 +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> gparted should really be a lot cleverer here. Fortunately, (a) you can
> still use the text-mode partitioner if you use the alternate install CD,
> and (b) we plan to rewrite the desktop CD partitioner for Edgy
> (http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Ubiquity/AdvancedPartitionerRewrite); the
> rewrite won't suffer from this problem.
>
> ** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
> Sourcepackagename: ubiquity => gparted
>
> ** Summary changed:
>
> - Manual partitioner reports error without offering solution
> + should create logicals automatically when no more primaries are available
>
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DaveThacker (dthacker9) wrote :

Thanks for filing the bug. I'm following up since you originally reported the problem. Have you tried this since the Edgy release? Has gparted's behavior changed? Thanks.
Dave

Changed in gparted:
assignee: nobody → dthacker9
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Daniel O'Donnell (daniel-odonnell) wrote : Re: [Bug 50360] Re: should create logicals automatically when no more primaries are available

I confess I don't remember. I think so. I just found a computer in my
basement (!). I'll put Edgy on it and see what happens.

-dan

On Sat, 2006-12-23 at 15:06 +0000, DaveThacker wrote:
> Thanks for filing the bug. I'm following up since you originally reported the problem. Have you tried this since the Edgy release? Has gparted's behavior changed? Thanks.
> Dave
>
>
> ** Changed in: gparted (Ubuntu)
> Assignee: (unassigned) => DaveThacker
> Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info
>
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Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD
Director, Digital Medievalist Project http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/
Associate Professor and Chair, Department of English
University of Lethbridge
Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4
Canada
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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

Thanks a lot.

Changed in gparted:
importance: Undecided → Medium
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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

As described in the previous comments, your report lacks the information we need to investigate the problem further. We'll close this report for now - please reopen it if you can give us the missing information.

Changed in gparted:
status: Needs Info → Rejected
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