Bugzilla – Bug 159660
root partition too small
Last modified: 2006-03-25 16:50:26 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. </preamble> 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 ========================================================== 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
Please attach the yast logfiles (/var/log/YaST2) as well as `fdisk -l'.
Created attachment 74886 [details] uitput from fdisk
Created attachment 74887 [details] uitput from fdisk
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
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 ***
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"