I reopened this bug, because I would like this bug to be fixed in
a point-release of squeeze. If that is not possible or against
policy, feel free to close this bug. Otherwise I ask that, if in
a pointrelease an updated installer is shipped, you consider
adding this patch to partman-base.
Thank you
partman-base-147-align-gpt.patch
--- partman-base/parted_server.c 2010-10-04 22:16:53.000000000 +0200
+++ partman-base-158/parted_server.c 2012-07-02 14:57:03.000000000 +0200
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
#include <parted/parted.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>
+#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
@@ -608,10 +609,16 @@
ped_disk_set_flag(disk, PED_DISK_CYLINDER_ALIGNMENT,
devices[index].alignment ==
ALIGNMENT_CYLINDER);
- else
+ else if (0 != strcmp(disk->type->name, "gpt"))
/* If the PED_DISK_CYLINDER_ALIGNMENT flag isn't
- available, then (confusingly) we should assume
- that *only* cylinder alignment is available. */
+ available, then there are two alternatives:
+ either the disk label format is too old to know
+ about modern alignment (#579948), or it's too new
+ to care about cylinder alignment (#674894). The
+ only format currently known to fall into the
+ latter category is GPT; for the others, we should
+ assume that *only* cylinder alignment is
+ available. */
devices[index].alignment = ALIGNMENT_CYLINDER;
}
}
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