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From: Paul Traina <pst@jnx.com>
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To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: sysinstall should allow partition size change before newfs
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>Number:         1686
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       sysinstall should allow partition size change before newfs
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    jkh
>State:          closed
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Sep 27 14:50:01 PDT 1996
>Closed-Date:    Sun Dec 22 09:31:27 PST 1996
>Last-Modified:  Sun Dec 22 09:32:06 PST 1996
>Originator:     Paul Traina
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
Juniper Networks
>Environment:



>Description:

When you go to install a FreeBSD system and do the "auto-defaults" for all
under the label menu, FreeBSD makes a good set of guesses regarding the size
of freebsd partitions.

However, if you disagree with *any* setting, there is no easy way to just
modify the size distribution of the partitions.

i.e. I'd like to type "A", then move the cursor to the var line and type
"S128M" or some such to change the size to 32Mb.

>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:

Please make sure we can do this in son-of-sysinstall
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To: pst@jnx.com
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: misc/1686: sysinstall should allow partition size change before newfs 
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 17:28:03 -0700

 > However, if you disagree with *any* setting, there is no easy way to just
 > modify the size distribution of the partitions.
 
 Right, because libdisk doesn't support the concept of "expand" or
 "shrink" for chunks, and to do it one level up would essentially
 require deleting and recreating the following partition or even
 collapsing it entirely (and moving on to the next victim) in cases
 where it's purely impossible to expand a chunk otherwise.  Hmmmm.  I
 guess that wouldn't be *too* bad, though I'm sure there are some error
 cases to look for.
 
 > Please make sure we can do this in son-of-sysinstall
 
 OK.  Designing this in from the beginning may be a little easier,
 especially as the lead time for setup (s-o-s) is long enough to give
 me a chance to work on Poul - I think this should be a libdisk
 feature, you see. :-)
 
 					Jordan
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->jkh 
Responsible-Changed-By: scrappy 
Responsible-Changed-When: Thu Oct 24 02:47:06 PDT 1996 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Jordan's baby... 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: jkh 
State-Changed-When: Sun Dec 22 09:31:27 PST 1996 
State-Changed-Why:  
This is a long-term project which will happen with or without the 
presence of this PR. :-) 
>Unformatted:
