[Bug 1099599] New: Problem resizing partition
http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1099599 Bug ID: 1099599 Summary: Problem resizing partition Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE Tumbleweed Version: Current Hardware: Other OS: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Installation Assignee: yast2-maintainers@suse.de Reporter: nwr10cst-oslnx@yahoo.com QA Contact: jsrain@suse.com Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0 Build Identifier: This was an attempted Tumbleweed install on a KVM virtual machine. I used a 20G virtual disk, and EFI firmware. After the initial partitioning proposal, I clicked "Guided Setup" and told it to use "ext4" for both the root partition and the "/home" partition. That gave me a new proposal with 8.3G for the root file system, and 9.4 for the "/home" partition. I told it to resize the home partition to 5G, because I wanted to have more space for the root file system. That part worked. I then tried to resize the root file system to the maximum available. It kept insisting that I could not go over the 8.3 initially proposed. To me, this seems wrong. Since no actual partitions have yet been created, it should be able to make that space (freed up from "/home") available to the root file system. I will attach logs. Reproducible: Always -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1099599 http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1099599#c1 --- Comment #1 from Neil Rickert <nwr10cst-oslnx@yahoo.com> --- Created attachment 775632 --> http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/attachment.cgi?id=775632&action=edit yast logs for the install -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1099599 http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1099599#c3 Neil Rickert <nwr10cst-oslnx@yahoo.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Flags|needinfo?(nwr10cst-oslnx@ya | |hoo.com) | --- Comment #3 from Neil Rickert <nwr10cst-oslnx@yahoo.com> --- Created attachment 775740 --> http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/attachment.cgi?id=775740&action=edit Screenshot for move partition Trying again (with snapshot 20180622), there was no option to move the partition. So I downloaded 20180627. There's now a move option. I have attached a screenshot. It offers to move the partition backward. Weird. There should be no space to move backward. It needs to be moved forward. Anyway, I accepted that move backward, and it did what was needed. There is something very unintuitive about this. "Backward" and "forward" aren't at all clear. I'm using the expert partitioner on the proposal. The proposal has not proposed a location for those partitions. It does not make sense to move partitions that have not yet been fixed in position.
From a users point of view, at this stage those proposed partitions are floating with no fixed position and only the size known. So they should just "float" to suitable locations to allow the resizing.
We do want this to be as easy as possible for inexperienced users -- or at least I hope we do. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1099599 http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1099599#c6 --- Comment #6 from Neil Rickert <nwr10cst-oslnx@yahoo.com> --- Responding to comment #4
Seriously? In what way would that be unclear? "Backward" as in "towards smaller numbers" and "forward" as in "towards higher numbers" - the common definition of both terms?
Thank you for making my point perfectly. The partitions were 1: EFI; 2: root; 3: home; 4 swap. After resizing the home partition, it needed to be moved forward (toward higher numbers) to allow space for the root partition to grow. However, the software described this as moving the partition backward. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
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