[Bug 1065054] Re: Partition manager does not collate freespace entries in the partition table during manual partitioning

[Dmitrijs Ledkovs]

Well if you have free space gaps here and there (as the logs reveal)
there is nothing we can do about them. There is no easy way to move the
partitions on disk to make them all back to back - this would destroy
your partition table. You can reproduce a similar situation by creating
5 partitions and then delete all the odd onces (1, 3, 5). You will have
three "free" locations and two taken. You mention this is on a mac mini.
Please note that Mac OS X explicitly adds small amount of padding around
partitions when partitioning using disk utility, so it is not uncommon
on that platform. Some of them are smaller than 1MB, hence the 0MB
entries. But the gaps are there on the disk in question.

** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  Partition manager does not collate freespace entries in the partition
  table during manual partitioning

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  During the manual partitioning a number of freespace entries can be
  seen in the partition table. There is even an entry of 0MB of
  freespace in the table.  Please see attached image.

  Occurred in mac mini 5.2 with 20121010 amd64+mac

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
  Package: ubiquity 2.12.9
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.27-generic 3.5.5
  Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  Casper:
   Generating locales...
     en_US.UTF-8... done
   Generation complete.
   pwconv: failed to change the mode of /etc/passwd- to 0600
   Adding 'diversion of /usr/bin/bluetooth-applet to /usr/bin/bluetooth-applet.orig by casper'
  CasperVersion: 1.327
  Date: Wed Oct 10 14:03:23 2012
  InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- maybe-ubiquity
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Beta amd64+mac (20121010)
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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