Bug#283303: Analysis and possible workaround

2004-12-20 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 10:46:05AM -0500, Jurij Smakov wrote: No, this bug does not exists if the swap partition is not the first on the disk. However, as indicated in the bug trail (see my message with subject [sparc] updated parted_server.c patch), everything works fine if the changes

Bug#283303: Analysis and possible workaround

2004-12-15 Thread Jurij Smakov
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Anton Zinoviev wrote: I think that the sun disk labels do not reserve special place on the disk to keep the partition table. The partition table resides at the start of the disk but the first partition is allowed to start right there. Thats why the first partition may not

Bug#283303: Analysis and possible workaround

2004-12-14 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 02:32:38AM -0500, Jurij Smakov wrote: After that I used partman to create two partitions on /dev/sdb, one 256 MB for swap and the rest (1.9 GB) for home. Initially disk had a freshly created disklabel, so all the space was shown as FREE. After the changes were

Bug#283303: Analysis and possible workaround

2004-12-11 Thread Jurij Smakov
Hello, I am pretty sure that the problem lies with the call to the CREATE_FILE_SYSTEM function of parted_server in commit.d/format_swap of partman-basicfilesystems. Before running partman I've inserted some extra statements into this script so that it looks like this: --modified part of