Bug#412624: partman-auto: all files in one partition fails..

Package: partman-auto
Version: 66
Severity: important

I tested today's daily netinst build of i386 on a machine w/ a 1.2TB
logical disk and found that it silently fails to calculate partition
sizes.

I selected "Partion Disks"->"Guided Partitioning"->"Guided - use entire disk"

Selected my one option:
SCSI.CCISS (-,0,0) (cciss/c0d0) - 1.2 TB Compaq Smart Array

And "All files in one partition".

It then presents the overview menu[1], but apparently nothing was
done.

If I let it use the whole disk but split up the partitions, it comes
up with some reasonable-looking calculations.

I'll look into this more later this week - I've not yet debugged any
of the partitioning code so helpful suggestions are welcome fyi,
this also exists in sarge installers.

[1]
� This is an overview of your currently configured partitions and mount �
� points. Select a partition to modify its settings (file system, mount �
� point, etc.), a free space to create partitions, or a device to �
� initialise its partition table. �
� S �
� Guided partitioning �
� Help on partitioning �
� �
� SCSI.CCISS (-,0,0) (cciss/c0d0) - 1.2 TB Compaq Smart Array �
� > pri/log 1.2 TB FREE SPACE �
� �
� Undo changes to partitions �
� Finish partitioning and write changes to disk �
� �
� <Go Back> �

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dann frazier | HP Open Source and Linux Organization

On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 12:59:47PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 February 2007 04:45, dann frazier wrote:
> > I tested today's daily netinst build of i386 on a machine w/ a 1.2TB
> > logical disk and found that it silently fails to calculate partition
> > sizes.
>
> I suspect this is because the maximum partition sizes in the recipe don't
> add up to something that is larger than 1.2TB. Can you try raising the
> upper limit for / before starting partman?
>
> 128 512 256 ext3
> [...]
> mountpoint{ /boot } .
>
> 500 10000 1000000 ext3
> [...]
> mountpoint{ / } .
>
> 96 512 300% linux-swap
> [...]

Thanks for the suggestion Frans. I added a 0 to the 1000000, and it
gave me:

SCSI.CCISS (-,0,0) (cciss/c0d0) - 1.2 TB Compaq Smart Array
#1 primary 1.2 TB B f ext3 /
#5 logical 2.7 GB f swap swap

So, bumping the limit clearly worked - but if Gordon Moore has
anything to say about it, I'll just need to up it again in 2014

Perhaps we should set it to 16384 GB[1]?

According to Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt, this is the
filesystem size limit for architectures with a 4kB PAGE SIZE
Architectures that use larger pages (alpha, ia64, etc) can go
up to 32768 GB.
--
dann frazier



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