GhostBSD 10-1 Beta2 - Partition Editor

[ASX]

Saw a good improvement in partition editor, now the GUI interface is cleaner than before.

Still some problem exists around manual partitioning, and I'm going to report them one by one: please look at the following image, taken immediately after entering partition editor:



What you can see here is a discrepancy between partition as reported from partition editor and as reported from gpart.

How I went there:
Doing testing I first installed GhostBSD on MBR partition table, that was ada0s1a as root filesystem and ada0s1b as swap, then I decided to test a dual boot install, so I installed ReactOS, deleting the original partition which was detected as type 165 and creating a small 4 GB partition.

After that I went again to boot GhostBSD to try the dual boot installation.

Must be noted that before to install ReactOS, I had zeroed the first MB of /dev/ada0.

The output as shown from partition editor is puzzling me as I do not understand where it come from, especially considering that output from gpart look correct.

While it doesn't seem to be a problem for itself, I though I should report it.

(manual installation failed, but I will report the details in a upcoming post).

[ASX]

update beta2 iso-2015-06-13:
- made a couple of installations using manual partitioning on MBR, '/' + swap, both went fine.

I was unable to delete a partition adas1 when using the following steps:

- select ada0 -> click on "auto"
- delete ada0s1b (swap, deletion OK)
- delete ada0s1a ('/', deletion OK)
- delete ada0s1 (ERR)

please see attached pic, with traceback.

[ASX]

Another problem: trying to manually partition a disk using a separate '/boot' filesystem:

the problem is if '/' is not the first partition, then partition editor complains about no '/' mountpoint.


Alternatively, setting:

ada0s1a -> '/'
ada0s1b -> '/boot'
ada0s1c -> swap

the installation fails because '/boot' is not the first partition.

partition editor and installer conflict about what it should be the first partition.

[ASX]

another error:

try to set up the following:

ada0
adas1
ada0s1a -> '/'
ada0s1b -> '/tmp'
ada0s1c -> swap

the installer fails and loop continuously with the following (partial) log:

...

EXITERROR: Error 1: umount -f /dev/ada0s1b

Unmounting: /dev/ada0s1b

EXITERROR: Error 1: umount -f /dev/ada0s1b

Unmounting: /dev/ada0s1b

EXITERROR: Error 1: umount -f /dev/ada0s1b

Unmounting: /dev/ada0s1b

...

[ericbsd]

Swap should be second.

[ASX]

Swap should be second.

Can you expand/elaborate your answer ?
Sound very much like the error is mine, instead of a partition-editor or installer error.

[ericbsd]

The way partiton work is:
MBR
/
SWAP
/boot

GPT
BOOT
/
SWAP
/boot

[ASX]

The way partiton work is:
MBR
/
SWAP
/boot

I already reported about installer wanting /boot as first partition, but may be you missed it:


as you can see it fail, please look at EXITERROR message:

GPT
BOOT
/
SWAP
/boot

similarly for GPT setup:


My question/request to expand was more about the fact that if some partitioning rule exists, like it seem you are stating, these aren't documented enough.
Additionally, as you can see those rules conflicts with the installer (pc-sysinstall I guess) requirements.

[ericbsd]

Ok I never use anything the / and swap. I Didn't know about that.

[bsdkeith]

I think you will find that partition b is expected to be swap.