Comment # 11 on bug 1087918 from H. Zeng

Hi Stephan, thank you for your detailed explanation. I really appreciate it.

Personally speaking, as long as the issue 3 in Comment #0 has been tracked in
bug 1087763, this is no longer a problem for me. I really love to use the
guided partitioner or expert partitioner. I agree with the philosophy of
keeping things simple but working. Furthermore, I did not issue this bug just
for me myself as I knew that the original partition scheme in my case is really
an edge situation and I knew enough to partition manually.

After reading your explanation I understand that why did the partitioner
propose to delete /dev/sda4. It is because /dev/sda4 is at the end of sectors.
It blocks the automatic deletion of (original) /dev/sda7 and the creation of
new partitions for Linux on it. If it is not possible to delete the last data
partition to create new partitions for Linux but preserve the end (very last
but hidden) partition of Windows Recovery, please just leave it. But the
Windows Recovery partition, which is at the end of the disk, is true the
factory configuration of that laptop.

Then, issue 1 might caused by the fact that there are too many primary
partitions. This makes it an edge case. So please leave it, too.

In the end, if no further discussion is expected in this thread, please feel
free to close it.