Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:11:46 GMT From: Boris Hollas <boris.hollas@gmx.de> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: bin/138025: sysinstall fails to create big partition Message-ID: <200908211111.n7LBBkTL026407@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200908211120.n7LBK6bI000321@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 138025 >Category: bin >Synopsis: sysinstall fails to create big partition >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Fri Aug 21 11:20:06 UTC 2009 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Boris Hollas >Release: 7.2 >Organization: >Environment: N/A (trying to install 7.2-R) >Description: While installing 7.2 with sysinstall, I used the disklabel editor to create a - 59 MB slice for FreeBSD - 2 GB swap partition - 12 GB / partition - 1.5 GB /var partition - 42326 MB /home partition During the last step, sysinstall reported "unable to create partition. Too big?" >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: I was able to create the partition as desired after I rearranged the order of creation. I created the / partitin first. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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