Configure Mount Point doesn't appear to work

[Adam Williamson]

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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