Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 09:39:37 +0800 From: Fbsd8 <fbsd8@a1poweruser.com> To: nevtic@tx.net Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 9.0-RC2 - bsdinstall miscount of remaining diskspace after partition deletion. Message-ID: <4EC708D9.8050709@a1poweruser.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1111181304250.3186@area51.tx.net> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1111181304250.3186@area51.tx.net>
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nevtic@tx.net wrote: > > If you are performating a manual partion in 9.0-RC2 bsdinstall and you > delete any created partition except the most recently created one, the > total remaining space will be miscalculated. Reproducable as shown below. > > Workaround: if you delete a partition that is not the last partition > that was created, delete all partitions created after that partition > before continuing. Order does not seem to be important. > > The results are similar with other hard drive sizes, with the i386 or > amd64 distributions, and with either 9.0-RC2 or 9.0-RC1 (I did not go > back and check install discs prior to RC1) > > Reproducing the miscount: > > A 114 GB drive is used for this example: > > Select Manual Partitioning > > Perform the first Create on the drive and select GPT > > Creating the first partition: "Add Partition" "size" shows 114GB > > Change size to 4GB, set mountpoint to / and tab to OK > (agree to the boot partition creation) > > Create a second partition: "Add Partition" "size" shows 110GB > > Adjust size to 10GB, set mountpoint to /usr and tab to OK > > Create a third partition: "Add Partition" "size" shows 100GB > > Adjust size to 20GB, set mountpoint to /var, and tab to OK > > Create a 4th partition: "size" shows 80GB remaining > > Adjust size to 40GB, set mountpoint to /data, and tab to OK. > > There is 40 GB remaining on the drive. Now change the size of /var. > First, delete the currently configured /var partition. > > In the Partition Editor, adding up all the lines on the screen shows > 54GB (plus a 64K boot) as allocated, so there should now be 60GB > remaining. But the deleted /var space has not been added back into the > total. > > Select Create again: "Add Partition" "size" shows 40GB > > Adjust size to 30GB, set mountpoint as /var, tab to OK > > A subsequent "Create" will show that 20GB is remaining, rather than the > actual remaining 30GB. Selecting any size 20GB or larger for /home will > give you a 20GB partition, and then an additional create will show the > 10GB. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > You should submit this as a pr.
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