Yes, it depends on the order of creation. I'm not really sure that this is a major problem? If you come along and resize partitions afterwards and insert new ones in the middle, you'll also end up with partition numbering that doesn't match the physical ordering of the partitions on the disk, since renumbering partitions is a good way to break many already-installed operating systems.
I realise that some software is strict about this kind of thing, and I know that fdisk warns about it; therefore I do consider this a bug. However, because (as mentioned above) there is no sane way to preserve this property in many of the situations the installer often finds itself in, I haven't been worrying too much about it. It might change my opinion if you actually encountered reasonably current software failing as a result of this - did you, or is this a cosmetic observation? -- installer skips primary partition https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/318393 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
