Bug 868899 - root partition limited to 2T
Summary: root partition limited to 2T
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: 18
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: David Lehman
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-10-22 12:06 UTC by Thomas Woerner
Modified: 2012-11-09 01:55 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-11-09 01:55:09 UTC
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Description Thomas Woerner 2012-10-22 12:06:03 UTC
Description of problem:
Creating a partition for "/" in manual partitioning results in a max size of 2.09T when leaving "Desired Capacity" empty on a 8T drive (disk image in qemu). Creating a partition for another mount point (example: /home) is resulting in 8.38T.

Changing the disired capacity afterwards with the +/- buttens or by manual enter is possible, but after hitting apply, it is reset to 2097151 MB.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
anaconda version in Fedora-18-Beta-TC6-x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create / partition with either empy size or size bigger than 2.09T or change size after creation.
2. Size limited to 2097151 MB
  
Actual results:
Size limited to 2097151 MB

Expected results:
Size bigger than 2097151 MB

Additional info:

Comment 1 David Lehman 2012-10-22 14:11:46 UTC
If you want a large root filesystem (>2TB) you'll have to create a separate /boot filesystem due to bootloader/firmware limitations.

Comment 2 Thomas Woerner 2012-10-22 17:04:40 UTC
Ok, but

1) It would be good to tell the user this.
2) It would be good to make the '+'button insensitive if at limit.
3) If you create a partition (> 2T) for example for /home and change the mount point afterwards to / without changing the size, it is accepted as valid with a size bigger than 2T, which most likely results in #868925 (this might get closed then).

Reopening without blocker.

Comment 3 David Lehman 2012-11-09 01:55:09 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> Ok, but
> 
> 1) It would be good to tell the user this.
> 2) It would be good to make the '+'button insensitive if at limit.
> 3) If you create a partition (> 2T) for example for /home and change the
> mount point afterwards to / without changing the size, it is accepted as
> valid with a size bigger than 2T, which most likely results in #868925 (this
> might get closed then).
> 
> Reopening without blocker.

We actually don't allow you to proceed with install due to /boot being on a partition that goes beyond 2TB. See bug 868925 for the details of why you were allowed to proceed with your install in spite of this check/error.


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