Bug 147620

Summary: YaST partitioner creates two partitions namend '/dev/hda8'
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1 Reporter: Juergen Weigert <jw>
Component: InstallationAssignee: Thomas Fehr <fehr>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None    
Version: Beta 3   
Target Milestone: Beta 4   
Hardware: Other   
OS: Other   
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Attachments: y2log after the above procedure

Description Juergen Weigert 2006-02-02 13:37:42 UTC 
I have the following partition layout:

# fdisk -l    

Disk /dev/hda: 122.9 GB, 122942324736 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14946 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1               1          96      771088+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda2              97        1402    10490445   83  Linux
/dev/hda3   *        1403        5318    31455270   83  Linux
/dev/hda4            5319       14946    77336910    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5            5319        7929    20972826   83  Linux
/dev/hda6            7930        9888    15735636   83  Linux
/dev/hda7            9889       11847    15735636   83  Linux
/dev/hda8           11848       13806    15735636   83  Linux
/dev/hda9           13807       14946     9157018+  83  Linux
#

In 'Installation Settings' click on 'Partitioning'.
Then select 'Create Custom Partition Setup'
Then select '1: 1. IDE, 114.4 GB, /dev/hda...' 
Then check '6: 15.0 GB ... hda7' and '7: 15.0 GB ... hda8'

Back in the 'Installation settings', the following is shown:

Partitioning:
 Delete partition /dev/hda7 (15.0 GB)
 Delete partition /dev/hda8 (15.0 GB)
 Create partition /dev/hda8 (19.6 GB) for home with reiserfs
 Create partition /dev/hda8 (10.0 GB) 

Note that /dev/hda8 appears twice.
The expert partitioner then shows hda8 19.6 GB, hda8 10.0 GB,  hda7 8.7 GB.

This does not happen when I select hda8 and hda9 instead of hda7 and hda8 above.
Comment 1 Juergen Weigert 2006-02-02 13:38:58 UTC 
Created attachment 66184 [details]
y2log after the above procedure
Comment 2 Thomas Fehr 2006-02-02 15:42:32 UTC 
This was indeed a nasty bug hidden deep in libstorage code. 
It was hidden there since libstorage exists.

Before 10.1 it was only possible to remove partitions starting from the
highest partition number. I changed this in 10.1 to allow arbitrary removal,
so this bug could now more easily be triggered.

Will be fixed in beta#4.