Re: [Vectorlinux-devel] The installer

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Well, for the automatic partitioning mode, the entire drive is erased and
new partition sizes are calculated and compared to the amount of space that
the packages will occupy.

But for the free-space mode (in which only free space from an existing
partition is used), it is not going to make any modifications to the drive
at all until it is sure that the packages will fit in that unused
space...thats why its important to know how much unused space that selected
partition has.

Using the df method is my last resort...its *really* messy (especially if
the user has many partitions).


On 14/08/07, M0E Lnx <m0...@gm...> wrote:
>
> Well, if this is for the "auto-partition" mode, then I think we
> definitely need to know how much space we got to play with ;)
>
> That way, the installer can allocate the necessary space for the
> necessary partitions.
>
> On 8/14/07, uel archuletta <ue...@gm...> wrote:
> > you shouldnt need to know the unused space on a partition only the
> partition
> > size. since we should format the partitions, shouldnt we?
> >
> > Uel
> >