bin/161046: bsdinstall(8): partition creation dialog should default to max

[Nathan Whitehorn]

The following reply was made to PR bin/161046; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn at freebsd.org>
To: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk at MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-followup at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/161046: bsdinstall(8): partition creation dialog should
 default to max
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 23:34:22 -0500

 On 10/06/11 21:28, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
 > On Thu, 6 Oct 2011, nwhitehorn at freebsd.org wrote:
 >
 >> Synopsis: bsdinstall(8): partition creation dialog should default to max
 >>
 >> State-Changed-From-To: feedback->closed
 >> State-Changed-By: nwhitehorn
 >> State-Changed-When: Thu Oct 6 14:16:53 UTC 2011
 >> State-Changed-Why:
 >> Trouble using edit-pr today: anyway, the installer has always done 
 >> what you
 >> suggest here.
 >>
 >> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=161046
 >
 > Hi Nathan,
 >
 > Sorry for the big pile of PRs all at once -- I just wanted to get 
 > mentioned issues off mailing lists and into a more noticable place.
 >
 > The main desire here was with respect to having the 'size' field 
 > pre-filled (as opposed to using the max size if the field is left blank).
 > Alas, I don't have a machine handy on which to test right now and 
 > confirm, but I'm pretty sure that I never saw the 'size' field get 
 > pre-filled.  Do you believe that it should be?  I can test again, later.
 >
 > Thanks again for all the tireless work.
 
 Thanks for the reports -- it makes things much easier to keep track of. 
 The size field should definitely be pre-filled, and is at least on my 
 machine.
 -Nathan