From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010803 Description of problem: When choosing automatic partitioning during installation on a system with 2 disks, /boot ans swap are put onto the first disk, leaving most of it free. / occupies all of the second disk. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Have 2 discs in the machine 2. Select automatic partitioning during install Actual Results: most of disc 1 is left unassigned Expected Results: usage of all available disc space. maybe use it for /home? or not use disc 2 at all so that the user can do with it what she/he wants. Additional info: /dev/hda: Model=WDC WD100BB-75AUA1, FwRev=18.20D18, SerialNo=WD-WMA6Z1142400 Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec SpinMotCtl Fixed DTR>5Mbs FmtGapReq } RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=57600, SectSize=600, ECCbytes=40 BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=2048kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16 CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=-66060037, LBA=yes, LBAsects=19541088 IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120} PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 *udma4 udma5 AdvancedPM=no Drive Supports : Reserved : ATA-1 ATA-2 ATA-3 ATA-4 ATA-5 /dev/hdb: Model=WDC WD100BB-75AUA1, FwRev=18.20D18, SerialNo=WD-WMA6Z1142397 Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec SpinMotCtl Fixed DTR>5Mbs FmtGapReq } RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=57600, SectSize=600, ECCbytes=40 BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=2048kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16 CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=-66060037, LBA=yes, LBAsects=19541088 IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120} PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 *udma4 udma5 AdvancedPM=no Drive Supports : Reserved : ATA-1 ATA-2 ATA-3 ATA-4 ATA-5 Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1216 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 6 48163+ 83 Linux /dev/hda2 7 39 265072+ 82 Linux swap Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1216 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdb1 * 1 1216 9767488+ 83 Linux
We (Red Hat) should try to fix this before next release.
This is the behavior which has been present since at least 6.1. The autopartitioning algorithm will be revisited for the next release. For now you can choose to review the autopartitioning results and then restrict the partitions to the drive you want. Alternately you can tell autopartitioning to only use one drive.
Deferring to future release.
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.