Hi Jan,

Thank you for following up on this and for the pointer to the bug.

sarah
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jan damborsky wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> you are hitting existing problem in fdisk(1M) command (installer uses
> fdisk(1M) for creating Solaris2 partition) - if Solaris2 partition starts
> after 4GiB, it can't be resized - please see release notes for details
> (bug 6690194):
>
> http://opensolaris.org/os/project/indiana/resources/rn3/
>
> The fix for this issue was delivered into build 90:
> http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6690194
>
> As a possible solutions for this problem you might pick up fdisk(1M)
> command from build 90 and manually delete/recreate Solaris2 partition,
> then installer would use right partition size.
>
> Thank you,
> Jan
>
>
> Qingye Jiang (John) wrote:
>   
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am installing OS 2008.05 onto a lenovo laptop with 70 GB of HD space. 
>> Originally I have NTFS (10 GB), Solaris (20 GB), and FAT32 (40GB). After 
>> installing OS 2008.05 I found that I need more space, so I went back to 
>> Windows and deleted Solaris (20 GB) and FAT32 (40 GB), then create an 
>> empty partition of 60 GB for OS 2008.05.  The installation program did 
>> pickup the 60 GB participation and installed OS 2008.05 onto it without 
>> any complain. However, after I boot into the system it has only 20 GB of 
>> disk space -- the additional 40 GB was gone!
>>
>> Actually this happened to several machines in our team. It is a 
>> reproducible bug! You install OS 2008.05 once, and it remembers how big 
>> your partition was, and continues to use that size even though it has 
>> been changed!
>>
>> Solutions?
>>
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