[blivet:rhel7/master] Make partitioning error message more friendly (#1020388)

mulhern amulhern at redhat.com
Thu Feb 20 17:11:00 UTC 2014


Resolves: rhbz#1020388

Automatic partitioning is complicated and may fail for a number of reasons
besides an absolute lack of space. This message is supposed to be soothing
yet useful.
---
 blivet/partitioning.py | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/blivet/partitioning.py b/blivet/partitioning.py
index 0076411..605f09f 100644
--- a/blivet/partitioning.py
+++ b/blivet/partitioning.py
@@ -1077,7 +1077,11 @@ def allocatePartitions(storage, disks, partitions, freespace):
                 break
 
         if free is None:
-            raise PartitioningError(_("unable to allocate a large enough partition"))
+            raise PartitioningError(
+               _("Unable to allocate requested partition scheme. "
+                 "Consider reducing the size of any already allocated "
+                 "partitions. If you are installing to disks of different "
+                 "sizes, consider placing the larger disks first."))
 
         _disk = use_disk
         disklabel = _disk.format
-- 
1.8.3.1



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