Sysinstall fails to re-allocate disk space.

Ken Smith wrote:

> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.0-BETA3 Available 
> The 7.0-BETA3 builds are now available.  If you would like to download

I installed 7.0-BETA3-i386-disc1.iso (after checking md5 on cd) on a 4G disc
I told sysinstall:
	Use whole disc
	A	For Auto defaults.
		It allocated 9M for swap !
		I deleted swap & /usr to get space,
		Allocated 100M for swap.
		It said not enough space (despite 3G free !)

I guess this is not a 7.0-BETA3 bug but a long term limitation of
sysinstall, for which at best one might file a send-pr requesting
an enhancement or submitting diffs (but I dont wany to poke about
in sysinstall **)

After I had installed I could see more data as below with df &
disklabel as below, but sysinstall didnt show me that much info
furing the install.  If I had deleted all partitions but /, I could
probably have allocated more swap, but then I'd have lost sysinstall's
reccomended sizes for all other partitions (OK, yes, I could have
written them down).

Seemed like a bug at the time "Damn! It's got the space, why doesn't
it use it?" Now with df & disklabel one can see why sysinstall
refused: sysinstall was too dumb to shuffle partitions, in older
simpler BSD installs, one would have the full disklabel (& in vi,
not some non BSD ee editor that's no smaller than some vi clones) (**).

   GENERIC dmesg:
   real memory  = 33554432 (32 MB)
   avail memory = 18964480 (18 MB)
   ad0: 4121MB <Maxtor 90432D2 GAS54112> at ata0-master UDMA33
   
   df
   Filesystem  1K-blocks   Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
   /dev/ad0s1a    317166 130316  161478    45%    /
   devfs               1      1       0   100%    /dev
   /dev/ad0s1e    221934     12  204168     0%    /tmp
   /dev/ad0s1f   3186642 118970 2812742     4%    /usr
   /dev/ad0s1d    348910    230  320768     0%    /var

   disklabel ad0s1
   # /dev/ad0s1:
   8 partitions:
   #        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
     a:   655360        0    4.2BSD     2048 16384 40968 
     b:    19352   655360      swap                    
     c:  8440929        0    unused        0     0         # "raw" part...
     d:   720896   674712    4.2BSD     2048 16384 45064 
     e:   458752  1395608    4.2BSD     2048 16384 28680 
     f:  6586569  1854360    4.2BSD     2048 16384 28552 

   swapinfo
   Device          1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity
   /dev/ad0s1b          9676     1820     7856    19%
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