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Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 19:37:40 GMT
From: Jo Rhett<jrhett@svcolo.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Change Units (Z) in fdisk doesn't work when fdisk doesn't like the disk geometry
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>Number:         107830
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       sysinstall(8): Change Units (Z) in fdisk doesn't work when fdisk doesn't like the disk geometry
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-sysinstall
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Jan 11 19:40:15 GMT 2007
>Closed-Date:    
>Last-Modified:  Tue Jul 13 13:37:06 UTC 2010
>Originator:     Jo Rhett
>Release:        6.0-RELEASE
>Organization:
Silicon Valley Colocation
>Environment:
FreeBSD arran 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #4
>Description:
Fdisk complains about the geometry of the disk (which is actually correct
at 2.4GB).  But if you try to change the size unit displayed, it complains
and fails to change the size units displayed.

>How-To-Repeat:
Start sysinstall, go to Configure -> Fdisk

Hit Z so that you can see sizes in different units.  It complains about
disk geometry and then returns you back to the screen *WITHOUT* changing
the size unit displayed.
>Fix:
The size unit display should probably continue to change, regardless of
what fdisk thinks about the geometry.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-sysinstall 
Responsible-Changed-By: gavin 
Responsible-Changed-When: Tue Jul 13 13:37:05 UTC 2010 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Over to maintainer(s) 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=107830 
>Unformatted:
