From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 18 16:54:32 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 842C716A4CE for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 16:54:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [63.229.157.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EEED43D48 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 16:54:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from runaround.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp1000.lariat.org@lariat.org [63.229.157.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA05093 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 09:54:29 -0700 (MST) X-message-flag: Warning! Use of Microsoft Outlook renders your system susceptible to Internet worms. Message-Id: <6.1.2.0.2.20041118095043.0675a6b0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.1.2.0 Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 09:54:27 -0700 To: questions@freebsd.org From: Brett Glass Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: Is this a bug? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 16:54:32 -0000 Just tried installing FreeBSD 4.10-R on a 60 GB hard drive. When I used the partition editor to enlarge the /var and /tmp partitions beyond the 256 MB that the install program recommended (I happened to pick 512 MB), the install consistently failed when the system began to write into the file systems; I got a "bad_dir" panic from UFS. But when I left the partitions at the default sizes, the install succeeded. What's up? The sizes I specified are reasonable, so the only thing I can think of is that this reveals an arithmetic bug in newfs, the label editor, or the underlying disklabel utility. --Brett