Hi David, On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 13:24:14 +0100, David Jansen <jansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Last week I encounterd this problem in FC3RC5, and today I saw it again > in the final FC3 installation. Anyone else experiencing this bug? > > David > > ----- Forwarded message from David Jansen <jansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ----- > I just downloaded the current FC3 release candidate and started an > install on a machine on which I do a lot of testing. > When choosing to amnually partition the disk, I was presented with a > list in which the space occupied by hda1 (an ntfs partition) was also > listed as Free space. I have put a screenshot on > http://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/~jansen/temp/diskdruid-bug.png > > Ignoring this free space of course left my windows partition alive but I > think it is potentially dangerous to report this space as free. Is this > a bug? I am certain FC3test3 and earlier didn't show the space occupied > by windows to be free. > I haven't dared to test the automatic partitioning yet, after all, it > may automatically use this "free" space. > > Should I file a bugzilla report about this? > > David Jansen I have a similar disk setup with /dev/hda1 being my ntfs WinXP partition and did not notice anything like this in the FC3 setup doing manual partitioning. If it was there, I don't remember seeing it. That is quite strange. You probably ought to file a bug report. Can you look at your partitions from the running system and see if you get anything like that reported? Thought I'd throw out another data point. Jonathan
