Reposting from my mail to -current of 16 September 2011, so it doesn't get lost: %%%%%%%%%% Once I'm in the interactive partitioner, I have no way of knowing what values are valid for the "type" other than essentially trial-and-error. (I think ivoras has also noted this?) If there was a way to display a list of valid or commonly-used values, that would be quite helpful. (When is "freebsd-ufs" used, versus just "freebsd"?) Also, if I try to modify a partition that I've created, I don't have the ability to change the size -- I have to delete and recreate. Now, I know that there are some cases where this is hard to deal with, such as when there are other partitions after the one in question, and resizing would require moving those other partitions further into the disk. But if there's only one partition, or there's free space available, or I want to shrink, I would like to be able to do that. (The solaris installer gets this right, if I remember correctly.) %%%%%%%%%%
Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-sysinstall fix synopsys and assign
State Changed From-To: open->feedback The installer doesn't have a way of knowing this either, and libdialog does not provide a dropdown widget. The obvious choices (freebsd-ufs, etc.) are displayed in the help line at the bottom of the screen and change depending on what the current scheme is (e.g. freebsd vs. freebsd-ufs). Can you think of a clearer way to communicate the possibilities?
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