Bug 59260

Summary: Auto partitioning failed with vfat and free space
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: argosy
Component: anacondaAssignee: Jeremy Katz <katzj>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Version: 7.2CC: d_hammer1
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RH Linux installer crash dump-partitions vfat and free issue none

Description argosy 2002-02-04 04:26:43 UTC 
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Description of problem:
Automatic partitioning failed with dialog "could not partition" with dev/hda1 
as vfat and free space. Manually deleted both and partitioned with default 
values from previous automatic partitioning install on another machine. 
Completed install successively and running without problems.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Partition drive to give dev/hda1 6142 vfat and Free of 8 or similar
1.Start install
2.At partitioning select automatic
3.
	

Actual Results:  As described above

Expected Results:  On previous machine without free space partitioned with 
default values. This is my second install with 7.2

Additional info:
Comment 1 Michael Fulbright 2002-02-11 17:03:23 UTC 
If you selected to autopartition and only delete linux partitions, and there was
only 8M of space left on the drive, I would expect autopartitioning to fail
because 8M is not enough space.

What did you expected to happen?
Comment 2 argosy 2002-02-12 22:03:19 UTC 
As I recall I elected to overwrite the existing vfat but maybe I missed 
something. On another machine with a single vfat partition it worked OK. I 
thought the free space was causing a problem.

I was not intending to install to the 8 MB of free space.
Comment 3 Jeremy Katz 2002-02-19 07:28:11 UTC 
To overwrite the existing vfat partitions, you have to select to delete all
partitions on the system.  Did you select deleting just the linux partitions or
all partitions?
Comment 4 Michael Fulbright 2002-04-10 18:20:43 UTC 
Closing due to inactivity, please reopen if you contine to have problems.
Comment 5 hammer 2002-05-27 14:58:26 UTC 
Created attachment 58667 [details]
RH Linux installer crash dump-partitions vfat and free issue
Comment 6 hammer 2002-05-27 15:04:07 UTC 
I faced this issue when installing RHL 7.2. I have Windows 2000 installed. I'm trying to add Linux to my hard disk while preserving Windows. Initially, after choosing 
automatic partitioning Anaconda reported a warning that "the partition table is inconsistent". And then I got similar messages to what is described previously by 
argosy. The difference is that I have the 'free' part with either 2 MB or <1 MB.
Comment 7 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 18:48:24 UTC 
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.