Bug 74217 - bogus description of 'Grow to fill disk'
Summary: bogus description of 'Grow to fill disk'
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: anaconda-help
Version: 8.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Michael Fulbright
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-09-18 01:52 UTC by Miloslav Trmac
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:38 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2003-01-10 07:27:55 UTC
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Description Miloslav Trmac 2002-09-18 01:52:44 UTC
In the text mode help:
   Selecting  Grow to fill disk allows that partition
   to increase or decrease in size as files are added
   and/or  removed  from  your system. Selecting this
   option  for  partitions,  such  as  the  /  (root)
   partition, which will have data constantly written
   to it is always a good idea.

This is completely bogus - the option actually causes free space on the disk
to be (evenly?) distributed among all partitions which have this option selected.
So if you select it for a single partition, it will use up all remaining free space.
It has NO EFFECT whatsoever to the post-install behavior of the system.

The description might possibly lead users to false sense that the partitioning
layout doesn't matter much, because size of the partitions will be
automatically adjusted when needed.

Comment 1 Miloslav Trmac 2002-10-05 23:55:36 UTC
Same in 8.0

Comment 2 Jeremy Katz 2003-01-10 07:27:55 UTC
Text help isn't included anymore


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