reassign 250284 partman retitle 250284 Should warn when trying to create partitions with inadapted (too small) size for the filesystem thanks
Quoting Michael Ahlers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Christian Perrier wrote: > > | IIRC, this is fixed now > > Outstanding. :) > > |>2. The partition editor doesn't check for minimum block device/partition > |>size requirements for filesystem options. Basically, it calculated a 20 > |>MB /tmp filesystem for my installation. I prefer reiserfs, so I > |>adjusted all partitions accordingly (knowing this would fail with /tmp > |>since reiserfs requires in the neighborhood of 30 MB for the journal, > |>AFAIK). The failure was not very graceful. A warning or an adjustment > |>of the partitions would be very helpful here. > | > | I very recently changed the minimum size for the root file system from > | 30MB to 70MB. > | > | You here suggest that 20MB for /tmp may be too small, right? What do > | you mean by "not very graceful"? > | > | Which minimum size do you think would be enough? This seems tricky as > | 20MB may be enough for an ext2 FS, but probably not for reiserfs as > | you suggest. > > Sorry for not being so clear--I wrote that report up in a big hurry. :) > > I'm not really suggesting increasing the minimum size for /tmp (though > come to think if, it should probably be a little bigger) but it'd be > helpful if the editor flagged impossible conditions such as this. By > not very graceful, I mean that the editor allowed me to create a > partition that does not meet the minimum requirements as dictated by the > filesystem I chose to use on it, and then bombed out later in the > process. That's a little ugly. So basically, if I have a 20M partition > and I tell the editor to make it reiserfs, it should tell me I've done > something dumb and optimally, offer to recompute the partitions, all > before I try to commit the changes. You're right, such check should be made by partman. This means that it needs to know, for each filesystem type, the minimum requirements. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
