[Bug 39846] Re: creates partitions in wrong order

[Phillip Susi]

This is a limitation of the msdos partition table, not a bug in gparted.
By their nature, logical partitions are numbered in order, and can not
have unused numbers in the sequence.  When creating new logical
partitions, even if they are placed at a lower offset on the disk, they
are given the next available number rather than change the number of the
existing partitions, which will cause other programs to break because
the partition they expected to be there has been moved.


** Changed in: gparted (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Invalid

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Title:
  creates partitions in wrong order

Status in Gnome Partition Editor:
  New
Status in “gparted” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  if you fill up your free space from behind, the partitions are also created that way, meaning that the last partition might become hda5.(in extended)
  If you now fix the partition order with fidisk, gparted does not recognize them any more.
  I think tahts also what happened, when I installed windows on my machine, since ubuntu could not get past initramfs after that.

  I suggest creating the partitions in their physical order instead.

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