9.0-RC2 - bsdinstall miscount of remaining diskspace after
partition deletion.
Fbsd8
fbsd8 at a1poweruser.com
Sat Nov 19 01:39:46 UTC 2011
nevtic at 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.
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