Re: Debian installer not finding free space

From	David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Debian installer not finding free space
Date	2017-06-16 07:30 +0200
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On 06/15/2017 07:15 AM, David Wright wrote:
> On Wed 14 Jun 2017 at 21:43:43 (-0700), David Christensen wrote:
>> ... by convention (de facto standard?), partitions have monotonically
>> increasing sector numbers -- e.g. the First and Last LBA's of partition
>> 4 must be greater than the LBA's for partition 3 and less than the LBA's
>> for partition 5. ...
>
> Never heard of this standard. Sounds like a broken tool.

More likely, PEBKAC -- it's a convention I've seen and followed for the 
past 25+ years of using PC's with MBR system drives.  Your example with 
gdisk demonstrates that new technologies (GPT) open new possibilities.

> [Renumbering GPT partitions] sounds very dangerous to me. If you feel the need to have
> the numbers in sequential order, just type "s" in a tool like gdisk:

The renumbering part is mechanical -- it's the risk of breaking things 
that depend upon partition numbers that makes it dangerous.  That's why 
I use and recommend one disk for each OS.

David

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Re: Debian installer not finding free space David DLC <drvrddc@gmail.com> - 2017-06-15 04:10 +0200
  Re: Debian installer not finding free space David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2017-06-15 06:50 +0200
    Re: Debian installer not finding free space David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-06-15 16:20 +0200
      Re: Debian installer not finding free space David DLC <drvrddc@gmail.com> - 2017-06-15 18:20 +0200
        Re: Debian installer not finding free space David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2017-06-16 07:40 +0200
      Re: Debian installer not finding free space David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2017-06-16 07:30 +0200

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