Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 01:28:25 +0200 (EET) From: Tuure Laurinolli <tazle@lyseo.edu.ouka.fi> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: bin/48989: Sysinstall's partition editor gets confused by partitions created out-of-order Message-ID: <200303062328.h26NSPO9098872@kotinetti-k-35.suomi.net>
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>Number: 48989 >Category: bin >Synopsis: Sysinstall's partition editor gets confused by partitions created out-of-order >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Thu Mar 06 15:40:10 PST 2003 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Tuure Laurinolli >Release: FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE >Organization: >Environment: System: FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE i386 miniint ISO on vmware 4.0 beta Another system: FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE i386 >Description: When using sysinstall's partition editor to create partitions the editor sometimes gets confused if they are created out of order (for example b,a,d). I installed FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE on vmware for some testing today and had the following problems when creating partitions: I first used the auto defaults option to see if it would give something sane, it didn't(well, rather sane but not good enough). Then I started deleting the partitions, swap first, then created a smaller swap, then deleted /usr, /var and /tmp, then /, then created a new / and then tried to create a new /usr, which didn't work. It said "Unable to create the partition. Too big?". I am sure it wasn't too big as I managed to create an equally big partition after deleting the newer / and swap partitions and creating them in order (first /, then swap). I have run into this problem earlier, deleting the already existing partitions helped that time too. >How-To-Repeat: Probably as described above. >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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