#10040 HIGH 1.5-sof: OFW unable to burn 4GB image onto 4GB SD card

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#10040: OFW unable to burn 4GB image onto 4GB SD card
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           Reporter:  wad           |       Owner:  cjb                              
               Type:  defect        |      Status:  new                              
           Priority:  high          |   Milestone:  1.5-software-update              
          Component:  build-system  |     Version:  Development build as of this date
         Resolution:                |    Keywords:                                   
        Next_action:  diagnose      |    Verified:  0                                
Deployment_affected:                |   Blockedby:                                   
           Blocking:                |  
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Comment(by pgf):

 online automatic resizing proved to take too long and be too expensive in
 terms of machine responsiveness to be done a) at boot, and b) in the
 background.  the temptation to power-cycle the machine because it appears
 "hung" during the operation is just too great.  (and power-cycling during
 an online resize is a bad thing.)

 i think we should fall back to a control panel button to "Allow full use
 of my storage", or some such wording.  a) we should have a place for
 reporting disk usage anyway, b) we could provide feedback of the operation
 in progress, and c) users are less likely to interrupt operations that
 they started explicitly.

 a requirerement we still have in this case, however, is that OFW set the
 partition size o the last partition to be the full remainder of the disk.
 i think it's because of the complicated mount setup, or maybe just because
 it's the root fs, but linux won't honor partition size changes on this fs
 until after a reboot.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10040#comment:12>
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