Bug 15663

Summary:	when selecting to use free windows space, installer also uses unused space (on a different disk) without asking
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Marja Van Waes <marja11>
Component:	Installer	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	doc-bugs, eeeemail, pterjan, thierry.vignaud
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	5RC
Source RPM:	drakx-installer-stage2-16.79-1.mga5	CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments:	report.bug.xz

Description Marja Van Waes 2015-04-09 13:43:25 CEST

Created attachment 6226 [details]
report.bug.xz

When testing whether bug 15589 is also valid on msdos partitioned disks, I found that installer not only used (too little) free space on a windows partition, as selected, but also unused space on a different disk without asking.

Even if a corner case (not many will have unused diskspace), it might be better to document it, anyway, so also CC'ing docteam

Marja Van Waes 2015-04-09 13:44:10 CEST

Hardware: i586 => x86_64
Whiteboard: (none) => 5RC

Comment 1 claire robinson 2015-04-09 18:06:12 CEST

I think we established this is intentional Marja, where it doesn't have enough space to install. It's worth confirming though.

CC: (none) => eeeemail

Comment 2 claire robinson 2015-04-09 19:03:15 CEST

It would be improved with a message to say that's what it is doing or seeking permission to do so though perhaps.

Comment 3 Marja Van Waes 2015-04-09 19:38:27 CEST

(In reply to claire robinson from comment #1)
> I think we established this is intentional Marja, where it doesn't have
> enough space to install. It's worth confirming though.

Well, because of bug 15589, installer only considered very little of the at least 80GB of Mageia partitions that I had deleted and added back to the windows partition, to be free space on a windows partition :-(

(In reply to claire robinson from comment #2)
> It would be improved with a message to say that's what it is doing or
> seeking permission to do so though perhaps.

Asking for permission would be very nice "Installer detected that there is too little space to install to. Do you agree to use the empty space on sdc?" :-)

Comment 4 Thierry Vignaud 2015-04-13 15:21:57 CEST

That's normal IMHO

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => WONTFIX