Re: install/55376: sysinst doesn't show 0 byte swap partition onpartition editor

[Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR install/55376; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: martin%duskware.de@localhost, install-manager%netbsd.org@localhost, tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost
Subject: Re: install/55376: sysinst doesn't show 0 byte swap partition onpartition
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Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 23:37:01 +0900

 >  > In that case, partition c ("NetBSD partition" on ports RAW_PART==3)
 >  > is shown at "b:" line and partition d ("Whole disk") is shown
 >  > at "c:" line. It is really confusing users.
 >  
 >  I personally do not find it confusing, it is just a menu label (that
 >  happens to be identical to the disklabel partition sometimes).
 >  
 >  It probably is mostly confusing to folks very familiar with BSD and disklabels,
 >  and there have been multiple queries about it.
 >  
 >  Not really sure how to best deal with it though - maybe if RAW_PART <= 3
 >  and/or the last used partition < 8 always list all partitions, even the
 >  unused ones.
 
 IIRC the essencial problem was I could not re-add a swap partition
 (that was zero'ed due to PR/55375) at the explicit b: partition.
 
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 Izumi Tsutsui