Hi Jan, Thank you for following up on this and for the pointer to the bug.
sarah **** 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? >> >> ("`-''-/").___..--''"`-._ Qingye Jiang (John) >> `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) Senior Manager >> (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..- Sun Developer Network, China >> _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,' Phone: +86-10-62673347 >> (il),-'' (li),' ((!.-' http://developers.sun.com.cn/ >> -------------------------------------------------------------------- >> About ME: visit http://www.qyjohn.net/, http://calendar.qyjohn.net/. >> About US: visit http://wiki.gceclub.sun.com.cn/index.php/SDN_China . >> >> _______________________________________________ >> indiana-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > indiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss > > _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
