Re: [Vectorlinux-devel] The installer

[uel a. <ue...@gm...>]

you shouldnt need to know the unused space on a partition only the partitio=
n
size. since we should format the partitions, shouldnt we?

Uel

On 8/14/07, Eug=E9ne Suter <ea...@gm...> wrote:
>
> Well, a little update on whats happening with the drive partitioning:
> I'm trying to get the installer to check for available space before
> installing anything (since this was one of the flaws that the text instal=
ler
> has: it will crash and burn if space runs out).
>
> This is easy enough to accomplish for the full-auto partitioning mode,
> since the installer creates the partitions, it knows how much space there=
 is
> available.
> But for the "free-space mode" its a different story: the unused space
> values have to be obtained some other way, and from reading parted's
> documentation and asking on the #parted channel, libparted does not provi=
de
> any way to know the amount of unused space on an *unmounted* partition.
>
> One possible way would be to mount ALL the partitions found and parse df,
> but thats a somewhat messy approach.
> The best would be to get the amount of unused space when the partitions
> are still unmounted (so these values can be displayed to the user before
> selecting a partition).
>
> I've opened a thread on the GParted forum about this (
> http://gparted-forum.surf4.info/viewtopic.php?id=3D862), since they have
> obviously found a way to do this.
> Any ideas on solving this problem some other way?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Eug=E9ne
>
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