Uwe Gansert wrote
however, the information is redundant: If <partition_nr> is given and out of {1,2,3,4} *and* a mount point is given, then autoyast could derive it's a primary partition, because an extended partition doesn't have a mount point.
I'm not so sure about that. A partition that is not mounted into the system has no mountpoint too.
Sure, this is just an "if", and not an "if and only if"! If you have partition number <= 4 and a mount point, it's a primary partition. If you are missing the mount point, you can't tell if it should be primary or extended...
All in all the partitioning is a very tricky thing, even if it sounds quite easy at first.
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