http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=495251 User autobugz added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=495251#c1 Steffen Winterfeldt changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|yast2-maintainers@suse.de |lslezak@novell.com --- Comment #1 from Steffen Winterfeldt 2009-04-21 10:00:01 MDT --- I'm not sure there is a bug. After all, it _did_ warn you. Predicting the used space correctly is impossible AFAIK (short of doing the actual install and have a look). Anyway, Ladislav, is this your area? -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=495251 User lslezak@novell.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=495251#c2 Ladislav Slezak changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |DUPLICATE --- Comment #2 from Ladislav Slezak 2009-04-21 10:43:45 MDT --- The installer simply cannot compute the install size exactly. There are several factors: - used filesystem (e.g. ext3 uses journal with default size of 128MB, so the real available space is 128MB smaller than the partition size. If ext2 would be used there would be more space available.) More over, every filesystem needs extra space (overhead) for metadata. - fragmentation - many small files need more space than a single file with same size (but again, this is filesystem dependant - e.g. RaiserFS can join more small files and store it to a single disk block) - files created by RPM post install scripts - every package may contain a script which can create additional files. The size of the files is unknown before installation. Yast increases the proposed used size by 2% or 5% IIRC, but the system still may not fit into the target. I'm resolving this bug as a duplicate of bug #263275, the journal size can be added to needed space, the other factors cannot be influenced by Yast and the result would be estimation in every case. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 263275 *** http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=263275 -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.