Ok going deeper, the recipe for "multi" file systems specifies on 15.04
the following  for / :  /lib/partman/recipe_ppc64el/80multi

---
70 800 300 $default_filesystem
        $lvmok{ }
        $primary{ }
        method{ format }
        format{ }
        use_filesystem{ }
        $default_filesystem{ }
        mountpoint{ / } .
---
~ # df -h
Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
none                    100.5M      2.3M     98.3M   2% /run
devtmpfs                456.7M         0    456.7M   0% /dev
/dev/vda2               268.9M    177.7M     72.9M  71% /target

~ # chroot /target /bin/bash
root@vm7:/# apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  linux-image-extra-3.18.0-9-generic
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  linux-image-extra-3.18.0-9-generic
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
12 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/36.6 MB of archives.
After this operation, 170 MB of additional disk space will be used.

So 177M free and 170M to install...

The maximum fs size for / is 300M rounded to cylinder size, according to
the recipe which is not enough :

Setting it to something bigger let the installation finish.

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