From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 2 04:20:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA03190 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 2 Aug 1996 04:20:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from DATAPLEX.NET (SHARK.DATAPLEX.NET [199.183.109.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA03181 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 1996 04:20:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 199.183.109.242 by DATAPLEX.NET with SMTP (MailShare 1.0fc5); Fri, 2 Aug 1996 06:19:13 -0600 Message-ID: Date: 2 Aug 1996 06:18:51 -0500 From: "Richard Wackerbarth" Subject: Re: 2.1.5R sysinstall To: "Andrzej Bialecki" Cc: "freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG" X-Mailer: Mail*Link PT/Internet 1.6.0 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Yesterday as I was installing 2.1.5R I noticed the same bug (feature?) of > sysinstall as in 2.0.5R. > > When using label editor I choose an (A) option (automatic selection of > filesystems sizes), and then I looked at the numbers and wanted to > slightly change them to suit my specific needs. > > So I went on and deleted some (not all) entries to free up space. Then I > started to assign them anew, and at the last chunk I've simply chosen > ``the rest'' of space by simply pressing Enter, when asked about size of > the filesystem. > > And then this fella tells me something like: "total numbers of blocks > exceeded" or "size too big" - I don't remember exactly. Anyway, it > miscalculated ``the rest'' of free space. > > It didn't help also when I deleted all already assigned space and started > again - it was still complaining. Finally, I quit the label editor and > entered it again. This time I manually assigned sizes, and encountered no > problems. > > So, that's it. Yep. I "found" that one also. I also tried allocating something less than all and still hit the problem. I'm guessing that the allocation doesn't properly "erase" things. -- Richard Wackerbarth rkw@dataplex.net