Comment # 12 on bug 1222465 from Volker Kuhlmann

> I know I'm talking to a wall but I'll try one last time:

Calm down. I am fixing it with urgency.

> One person's alignment gap is the other person's free usable space.

Correct. Yast doesn't give options (it doesn't even say what it's doing), hence
using other tools. Bad luck fdisk didn't flag user error. That's unix -
everyone's allowed to be an idiot but doesn't have to be. With Redmond OS you
must be an idiot, big brother always knows what you need.

> So in light of this, am I correct assuming you tried to create a layout
> with 256 MiB manually with fdisk?

128MiB alignment, yes. Information I found suggests erase block sizes are much
larger than 1MiB and flashbench testing indicates 128MiB to be a good choice.

> Why aren't you using GPT where you can
> put your partitions one after another without gap, perfectly aligned?

If I knew everything, I could tell whether OtherOS on the earlier partitions
still boots with GPT, but I don't. DOS tables are supposed to work on a 2TB
disk so that seems the safe option. Plus it's always worked so far, so no
change is safest.

> There's two real issues: (1) fdisk should not allow such partitioning and

I prefer a warning, not error. There is often unexpected use in tools that
eventually do what told. But whatever.

> (2) parted should probably not just crash when it sees it.

Nothing is allowed to crash on bad input. Especially when it causes install
failure. Show a warning, fine, a completely blank result with no reason why is
not useful. I can recover now regardless whether anything gets fixed. Thanks
for looking at it, I appreciate it.