On Fri, 2010-12-03 at 21:31 +0100, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > Should setup-storage be changed, this will affect anyone using preserve > options. > It won't matter that much for fresh installs without preserved partitions, but > if some partition is preserved and all partitions listed before the preserved > partition have fixed sizes, setup-storage will fail miserably to determine a > viable disk layout. If anybody thinks they might be in such a situation, it > would be nice if they spoke up.
In my practice, this would be relevant for laptops. Laptop manufacturers tend to place a recovery partition at the end of the drive. In some cases these partitions have had some addresses hard-coded into the partition, so that they cannot be moved to other location on disk. My usual practice is to reduce the size of the primary Windows partition, creating a gap where an extended partition can be created for Linux. The disk layout thus becomes: Primary 1: Windows C: Extended: Logical 5: Linux / Logical 6: Linux /var ...... Primary 3: Windows recovery. I have seen gaps (unallocated space) appearing both before and after the Linux partitions. I never put much thought into the reasons, but these may be related to the alignment issues. I can well live with these gaps, but for someone else this may be relevant. Toomas Tamm
