Strange Disk Partitionaing issue with Clean Fedora 11 Upgrade

[Bill Davidsen]

Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
> I've had a strange result when doing a clean update to Fedora 11 on my 
> classroom lab systems. 
> 
> The machine currently has 98, XP, and Fedora 10. 
> 98 is sda1
> XP is sda5
> Boot is sda6
> LVM is sda7 (root and swap)
> 
> The sda7 is 37953MB
> 
> I go thru the installations, and tell it to replace existing Linux on disk.
> The sda7 partition is changed to 33210MB and leaves 4743MB of Free 
> Space? Any ideal why it would reduce the size of the partition? 
> 
May I take a guess? It took the size of / and made the partition that, and wants 
swap to be another partition. That's a guess, no refund if wrong.

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