Hello again, On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, Erinn Clark wrote: [skipped]
Thanks for the tip. As it happens, the only thing I did differently this time around was use XFS instead of ext3 (with the same partitioning scheme that I had before - 700mb /, 1gb+ /home, and 128 swap). It appears to have eaten up the entire partitioning scheme as a result, leaving a 2.2GB XFS partition in its wake. I would have mentioned this, but I didn't think to check on the partition table after being unable to install SILO...
Oops, SILO does not work with XFS either (at least it didn't last time I checked). That was reported and partman should not really let the bootable partition to be XFS (or, at least, that should be documented somewhere).
Trying to repartition with ext3 lets me use the first 10% of the disk for / and then tells me the rest of the disk is unusable. Trying again with the automatic partitioning tool in partman gives me a usable /boot (at 100mb) and then says the remaining 2.1gb are unusable.
That sounds like broken partition table. You can recreate the partition table (aka 'Sun disklabel') by choosing the disk line (the one with disk model and size specification) in partman's main menu and pressing Enter. It will then let you recreate a blank partition table, after that all the space should be accessible for partitioning.
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