When opening the properties dialog for an existing partition I can not resize it although the text displayed suggests it should be possible. Also, after selecting to format the partition I expect to be able to change the filesystem type.
we're gonna need more information than that if we're to debug this. please give us your complete partition layout and exact steps you tried.
fdisk -l Disk /dev/hda: 163.9 GB, 163928604672 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19929 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 249 2000061 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/hda2 250 10209 80003700 83 Linux /dev/hda3 10210 13944 30001387+ 83 Linux /dev/hda4 13945 19929 48074512+ 83 Linux Disk /dev/hdc: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdc1 1 249 2000061 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/hdc2 250 5112 39062047+ 83 Linux /dev/hdc3 * 5113 6085 7815622+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hdc4 6086 9729 29270430 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 9729 78148161 83 Linux /dev/sda2 9730 19457 78140160 83 Linux All my "Linux" partition are reiserfs. The partition on which I plan to install this test version is /dev/hda4. What I did was click on /dev/hda4 and then use the "Properties" button. Inside that dialog box I tried resizing the partion using the slider, but it didn't move. Changing the size in the textbox had no effect either. As for changing the filesystem type, I find it normal for the list to be disabled by default, but when I change "Format:" to "Yes" I expect that list to be enabled.
The installer is currently not capable of resizing reiserfs. It can resize fat32, ntfs, swap, ext2, ext3, and anything else that parted natively supports resizing. As for changing the filesystem type when formatting, just remove the partition and create the new one in its place. I designed it this way, and I probably won't change it.
(In reply to comment #3) > The installer is currently not capable of resizing reiserfs. Actually I didn't expect it to be able to resize reiserfs partitions, but that's what the Installer claimed :) So I tried it, and I didn't get any error message... I don't think this is also design.
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