Fixing setup-storage_no-cylinder-boundaries
Julien BLACHE
jblache at debian.org
Fri Feb 11 12:13:08 CET 2011
Hi,
setup-storage_no-cylinder-boundaries in experimental had serious issues
with preserving msdos partitions created by previous versions of
setup-storage.
There were 2 issues:
- aligning to sector boundary instead of cylinder boundary by default
- aligning the start position of partitions 1 and 5
This leads to the new setup-storage creating partitions that are up to
several megabytes larger than they were with the old setup-storage.
I've fixed both issues by:
- reverting to cylinder boundary for msdos partitions by default, but
align-at can override that
- ignoring alignment constraints for the start of partitions 1 and 5 on
msdos disk labels
Basically, we shouldn't mess with alignment on msdos disklabels, it's
going to break backward compatibility.
JB.
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