On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 10:10 -0400, Tom H wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 8:08 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > >> > Hey, folks. I just threw together a quick draft of an 'install alongside >> > Windows' test case - we have this as a final criterion, but no test case >> > for it as of yet. Here's the draft: >> > >> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Adamwill/Draft_QA_Testcase_install_alongside_Windows >> > >> > any comments, questions, suggestions welcome! thanks. >> >> " Prepare a system with a Windows installation, and some free disk >> space on the same disk as the Windows installation " >> >> Isn't the most likely scenario one where the Windows partition has to >> be resized? > > We specifically don't support (in the sense of 'delay releases for') > resizing as it's known to be a very hairy area. For instance, I did a > test where I install a completely clean, single-partition Win7 system > taking up an entire 20GB virtual disk, immediately booted to the Fedora > installer and tried to resize the partition, and ntfsresize crapped out > because (AFAICT) Windows had actually created the partition wrong - the > NTFS filesystem was a sector larger than the actual underlying > partition. This is, apparently, not unusual behaviour for Windows, and > it's not something we can do much about because *ntfsresize itself* > intentionally does not try and handle this case, it just throws an error > and goes to bed. > > Basically, resizing is an inherently fragile operation and we made the > choice not to 'guarantee' it with the criteria. > > You could say the test represents the scenario where you do the resizing > with something specialized like gparted prior to starting Fedora > installation. Thanks for the explanation! -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
