Bug 787237

Summary:	[ia64-pv] swap does't take all remaining space if told to
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Alexander Todorov <atodorov>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Release Test Team <release-test-team-automation>
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Version:	5.8
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Description Alexander Todorov 2012-02-03 16:16:21 UTC

Description of problem:


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How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create Xen PV guest on ia64.
2. Delete all previous partitions
3. Create /boot/efi - 100 MB
4. Create swap partition and make it use all remaining free space
  
Actual results:
swap is 2047MB and I have 17 GB of free space left on the disk. 

Expected results:
Swap will take all the rest free space. NB: I was planning for / to be on separate iscsi disk. 

Additional info:

Comment 1 Chris Lumens 2012-02-07 15:32:26 UTC

This is on purpose - we clamp the swap space to the maximum given by the swap suggestion to prevent swap from growing to consume all space.  This has been the behavior since early 2003, so it's really too late to chance it now.