Bug report

[Karl Larsen]

Tim wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 06:19 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>   
>> I said that a bug report would be sent regarding the new F7 moving 
>> partition designators. This is it:
>>
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=352181
>>     
>
> That has to be one of the strangest worded entries I've ever come across
> from someone who speaks English.  It's incoherent to the extreme, both
> in the weird descriptions as well as the wrong terminology.
>
> /dev/sda is a device name not a partition name.  Even /dev/sda1 isn't a
> partition name, it's a device name referring to a partition.
>
> You don't boot a hard drive.  You select a drive/partition to boot from.
>
> Just changing how you "use" a drive changes the designation?  By that
> description, using my hard drive more than I did yesterday could be
> construed as the problem...  Try something more understandable, like:
> Changing the drive you boot from alters the device names for other
> drives.  Adding additional drives can change the device names for other,
> even fixed, drives to change.  To be logical, and coherent, it really
> shouldn't have that effect.
>
> I don't know where to begin with "the Linux is a /dev/sda".
>
> You should really cancel that report, and start again with a coherent
> bug report, and pick a more likely cause behind the problem.  I'd guess
> udev would be a better item to first bugzilla it against.
>
>   
    I am sorry you don't like my bug report. But I have to say what you 
complain about makes no sense either. Now I expect whom ever is assigned 
that bug will have questions. Then I will answer them.



-- 

	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
	Linux User
	#450462   http://counter.li.org.