Draft 'install alongside Windows' test case

[Tom H]

On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> 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 at redhat.com> 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!