Bug#239208: Sarge beta 3: Error when using installer to resize partition

[Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg>]

On 23.III.2004 at 16:21 Laurens Blankers wrote:
> 
> If the new size is bigger than the maximum possible size (because is
> either exceeds the size of the drive or there is an overlap problem with
> another partition) you could display a dialog asking the user to either
> cancel the operation or resize the partition to the maximum amount
> possible.

I'd prefer the first option -- a cancel dialog.

> Alternatively you could allow a special keyword such as MAX when entering
> the partition size to allow user the easily specify the maximum amount
> possible without needing above dialog.

This is a good idea.

> - Allow resizing of a virtual partition.
> - When the end of a partition before a virtual partition moves also move
> the beginning of the virtual partition. So if you start out with this
> 
> [...]
>
> If this causes you a lot of work (and I think it does) I have an easier
> solution:

Yes, it causes a lot of work. :-)

> The initial problem was that I thought the swap partition
> suggested was too small compared to the internal memory (RAM: 192 Swap:
> 210) other installers suggest a swap partition of about 384 MB (2 x RAM)
> which is (for me) a more beter size.
> 
> I don't know what algoritme the installer uses to calculate the suggested
> swap size, but if you change it to 2 x RAM I would be happy.

We already discussed the size of the swap partition.  The conclusion
was that more than 256MB swap is never (rarely) needed.  On one hand
if you have small RAM, then too big swap means that the kernel will
become irresponsible swapping.  On the other hand if you have enough
RAM (255MB) then you don't need swap at all.

Anton Zinoviev