Bug 159660

Summary:	root partition too small
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1	Reporter:	Hans Witvliet <hwit>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	E-mail List <bnc-team-screening>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity:	Blocker
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Beta 8
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86-64
OS:	SuSE Linux 10.1
Whiteboard:
Found By:	Beta-Customer	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	uitput from fdisk uitput from fdisk logfile from yast2

Description Hans Witvliet 2006-03-21 08:12:33 UTC

Firstly, I am aware of the current discussion on the list about minimal root partition. However, that is about the DEFAULT size....

As stated on the list, i was brought up with the idea that file systems with different purpose *must* have their own partition, and i still teach this to new people in my department.
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Started an instattion woth verified & tested media on a new Dell 830 server.
Intended partition layout (firt run):
/boot 100MB
swap 1GB
/    1GB
/home 1GB
/opt 5GB
/srv 50GB
/tmp 1GB
/usr 10GB
/var 5GB
Software selection: all minus laptop or mobile)
Complaint from yast: 
root usage 616% used 6.2GB free -5.2GB
Failed to install

Suggestion made by yast: Continue anyway
selected: YES (as /usr partition large enough)
Still refuses to install
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next try (after reboot) try to avoid it by using lvm
/boot 100MB
swap 1GB
/    500MB
LVM  70 GB
logical volumes:
/usr  10GB
/var   5GB
/tmp   1GB
/home  1GB
/srv  30GB

Again, root partition way to small, refuses to install.
NOTE: during software selection module, yast does see all the partitions
and shows the correct provided size, but indicates foor all other partitions a usage of 0%.

Yes, i know one could create one huge root partition, install everything in it,
create a decent partition layout and copy evrything back into it.
But as this was working in beta-6 I presume that this is a typo during the calculation of the DEFAULT root size.

One should always be able to overrule suggested defaults, not?
I indicated this as blocker, as this should *NOT* go into production.

Hans

Comment 1 Michael Gross 2006-03-21 14:31:14 UTC

Please attach the yast logfiles (/var/log/YaST2) as well as `fdisk -l'.

Comment 2 Hans Witvliet 2006-03-24 11:11:48 UTC

Created attachment 74886 [details]
uitput from fdisk

Comment 3 Hans Witvliet 2006-03-24 11:11:54 UTC

Created attachment 74887 [details]
uitput from fdisk

Comment 4 Hans Witvliet 2006-03-24 11:18:34 UTC

Created attachment 74889 [details]
logfile from yast2

Here are the requested background info.
Just re-run the test (default kde-config) with same results. Because the original file is rather large (26MB) I filtered all statements with "resolver" and "queue: out.
If you need the complete file, let me know.
Interesting part of the log, is that the Space calculation is re-checked several times, partitions are seen, but not used for the required space.

[YCP] Packages.ycp:772 Resetting space calculation
[YCP] SpaceCalculation.ycp:297 available partition: mount: /usr, free: 10480640 KB, used: 0
[YCP] SpaceCalculation.ycp:510 Partition "/" needs 1.67 GB more disk space.
[YCP] Packages.ycp:775 Disk space sufficient: false

Comment 5 Matthias Eckermann 2006-03-24 11:57:26 UTC

Hi Hans,
I just came over your report: in my view, it is the same as bug #159322
(reported by me) and bug #158785 (reported by Eberhard Moenkeberg).
As #158785 is the oldest one, yours and mine are marked as duplicates.
Hope, you agree.
Best regards - MgE

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 158785 ***

Comment 6 Hans Witvliet 2006-03-25 16:50:26 UTC

Yes, you are right.
My apologies for the double entry, thought i searched bugzilla enough before reporting.
Keep a firm state about the "blocking nature"