On Wed, 2012-12-19 at 20:33 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote:
Before I file a bug, I want to see if anyone else is finding this,
because I'd think for sure by now if people can't choose what disk they want
partitions on in a multi-disk scenario, something brown would have hit the fan by now.
Choose two black virtual disks (or choose 8 which is what I did, but it doesn't
matter). Go to Manual Partitioning. Add swap of some amount.
a. Click on swap mount point.
b. Observe that the "Name:" field says sda1 (or whatever it says for you).
c. Click on the black hole spewing gamma rays button, to the right of the minus button.
d. Observe in the resulting "Configure Mount Point" your listed options are all
highlighted in blue, apparently all disks are selected for this one swap mountpoint.[1]
e. Observe in the same dialog, the capacity vs free space, and you'll see which disk
is actually being used for swap.
f. In the same dialog, choose another disk and click select.
g. Observe swap mount point "Name:" does not change from sda1 (or whatever it
was for you before). [2]
h. Click on the black hole button again, observe that the disk you chose in step f. is
now the only one selected, yet free space is the same as capacity.[3] And also observe
that there is an unselected disk with a lower amount of free space than capacity.
Conclusion: Configure Mount Point doesn't actually do anything.
Try it with something other than swap before drawing any conclusions.
Swap is a bit odd.
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