Bug 704992 - Root partition size warning only at <250MB
Summary: Root partition size warning only at <250MB
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: David Lehman
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-05-16 10:04 UTC by Kamil Páral
Modified: 2012-10-22 20:47 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2012-10-22 20:20:26 UTC
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2011-05-16 10:04 UTC, Kamil Páral
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Description Kamil Páral 2011-05-16 10:04:43 UTC
Created attachment 499107 [details]
warning dialog

Description of problem:
When I try to create / partition lower than 250 MB, anaconda warns me that it is usually too small to install Fedora.

However, it's impossible to install minimal package set on partition that is smaller than circa 750 MB.

I believe the warning dialog should be displayed even for partitions larger than 250MB. If the dialog is targeted at minimal install users, it should probably warn about partitions < 750 MB (or 1 GB to be sure). If the dialog is targeted at common users (using default install), then it should be displayed for partitions < 3.5GB.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Fedora 15 RC2
anaconda-15.31

How reproducible:
always

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Comment 2 David Lehman 2012-10-22 20:20:26 UTC
I just did a minimal install of F18-Beta.TC6 on x86_64 with a separate /usr. My root filesystem contains less than 200MB of data. I think that means the minimum size does not need to grow beyond 250MB.

Comment 3 Kamil Páral 2012-10-22 20:47:31 UTC
> anaconda warns me that it is *usually* too small to install Fedora

Minimal install with separate /usr is not probably a *usual* scenario. The scope of this bug was different - to warn user about probably unreasonable layout.

(It wasn't an error message, it was just a warning dialog.)


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