Bug 487669

Summary:	incorrect swap size - broken autopartitioning code
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Daniel Mach <dmach>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	anaconda-maint-list
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Description Daniel Mach 2009-02-27 11:46:30 UTC

How to reproduce:
- create a VM with a 10G disk, 768M RAM
- boot install media
- create primary partition: /, 9500M
- create primary partition: swap, fill up to maximum size

Results:
An approx. 500M swap is created.
200M remains unallocated.

Quite funny is when you edit the swap size and set:
- fill all space up to: 999M (which is less than 500+200)
Then anaconda hangs for few minutes and switches swap partition with free space:
- swap size changes to 200M
- free space changes to 500M

Please reconsider this autopartitioning magic.
It's definitely useful when a user want's to create layout automatically.
But when he wants to create custom layout, these limits are annoying.

For example, memory of my virtual machine is limited and I *really* want to create larger swap space than usual.

Comment 1 Daniel Mach 2009-02-27 12:08:13 UTC

edit:
- fill all space up to: 999M (which is less than 500+200)
should be:
- fill all space up to: 999M (which is *more* than 500+200)

Comment 2 Chris Lumens 2009-03-12 18:27:14 UTC

We've made significant changes to the partitioning code.  Please give it a try in the latest rawhide and see if you continue to hit this problem.  Thanks.

Comment 3 Daniel Mach 2009-06-08 14:38:21 UTC

I didn't hit this problem last time I installed rawhide.
Let's close this bug.