On 08/21/11 15:49, Garrett Cooper wrote:
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Nathan Whitehorn
<nwhiteh...@freebsd.org> wrote:
On 08/18/11 18:24, Garrett Cooper wrote:
So, I used the bsdinstaller again on the 9.0-BETA1 media with manual
partitioning. The HP desktop ate up 3 partitions, I inconveniently
forgot that geom can't grok secondary PC MBR partitions, was fooling
around and cleared the partitions, etc. I hit abort to exit the
partitioner start and from scratch and now my Windows partitions and
recovery partitions are gone.
So, oops... just a word of warning for anyone else that monkeys around
with bsdinstall that it doesn't always hold true to the "will apply
changes at Exit" guarantee right now (i.e. atomicity is busted). If
someone else has a second OS that they'd rather not lose, at least
they will know to reboot their box when committing changes.
I'll inspect the code sometime this weekend to trace down the annoying
bug, but this is probably release gating for new users (and sadly
forces me back to wanting to use sysinstall :/..).
There are only a couple of cases when it does that, and it gives you a giant
warning in all capital letters to ask if you really want to proceed. One of
those cases can be changing partitioning type. Can you elaborate on how you
made this happen?
I simulated the issue in VirtualBox, like so:
1. Grab the Fedora 15 image (you could grab another version of
FreeBSD though, or your choice OS). Install image to disk.
2. Boot BETA1 media.
3. Choose LiveCD.
4. Login as root, password "".
5. Type in bsdinstall and hit enter.
6. Enter in all prereqs (hostname, keyboard map, etc).
7. Choose "Guided" partitioning.
8. Choose "Use all disk". This destructively modifies the
partition table, unlike some of the other options.
Why does "Use all disk" need to commit immediately, instead of
virtually deleting the partition table?
Thanks,
-Garrett
gpart does not support (well, anyway) changing the underlying partition
table format without committing changes. Replacing the partition scheme,
which this does, is such an operation. I would note that it *does* warn
about this:
- Choose the disk. A box comes up saying that choosing "Entire disk"
will erase the drive.
- If you press "Entire box", a warning comes up saying "This will erase
the disk. Are you sure you want to proceed?".
It is only after you press OK the second time that it does anything to
the drive.
-Nathan
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