[Bug 1595495] Re: DASD drives can only hold 3 partitions

[Martin Pitt]

Hello Dimitri, or anyone else affected,

Accepted partman-base into xenial-proposed. The package will build now
and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/partman-
base/187ubuntu2.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package.  See
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out to other Ubuntu users.

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advance!

** Changed in: partman-base (Ubuntu Xenial)
       Status: In Progress => Fix Committed

** Tags added: verification-needed

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Title:
  DASD drives can only hold 3 partitions

Status in partman-base package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in partman-base source package in Xenial:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  [Impact]

   * DASD drives have two types ECKD and FBA.
   * ECKD have been made to use dasd partition table by default, however can be used with msdos partition table
   * FBA devices use msdos partition table by default
   * Both types of drives can only hold 3 partitions
   * However parted/partman default to using logical partitions with default installation recipe, thus exploading instalations.

  [Test Case]

   * Start the installer, activate ECKD and/or FBA devices
   * In case of ECKD choose to use msdos partition table (label)
   * The installer should only create primary partitions, and not offer to create logical partitions in any way

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