Hi, Recently I have hit into the issue of automatic partition done during the installation of Debian jessie creating too small root (/) partition, and tried to find out where to report this and found the following post which is quoted below.
Sorry I am not sure how to quote a post to debian-boot mail archive, which I found at https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2014/10/msg00115.html. The subject was "root-fs too small [was: Re: Debian Installer Jessie Beta 2 release]". So I simply copy and paste the web page below. > > * /To/: [email protected] <mailto:debian-boot%40lists.debian.org> > * /Subject/: root-fs too small [was: Re: Debian Installer Jessie Beta 2 > release] > * /From/: Noël Köthe <[email protected] <mailto:noel%40debian.org>> > * /Date/: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 10:53:30 +0200 > * /Message-id/: <[email protected] > <https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2014/10/msg00115.html>> > * /In-reply-to/: <[email protected] > <https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2014/10/msg00095.html>> > * /References/: <[email protected] > <https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2014/10/msg00095.html>> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Hello, > > Am Sonntag, den 05.10.2014, 21:11 +0200 schrieb Cyril Brulebois: > > > Feedback for this release > > ========================= > > > > We need your help to find bugs and further improve the installer, so > > please try it. Installer CDs, other media and everything else you will > > need are available at our web site[3]. > > I still can confirm #740330 "root-fs should be larger". You will only > run into this problem when you autopartition and later you get a kernel > update (e.g. 3.16-1 > 3.16-2 or coming kernel security updates). > If / is too small a jessie+1 will run into this problem, too. > > Please raise the size. Thank you.:) > > -- > Noël Köthe <noel debian.org> > Debian GNU/Linux, www.debian.org > > *Attachment: signature.asc > <https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2014/10/pgpLDkSppej9z.pgp>* > /Description:/ This is a digitally signed message part > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Does the recent netinstaller for jessie I downloaded last weekend contain the fix for above? I doubt it because I just hit the too small root partition issue after I was upgrading and doing some installation stuff on a new installation. I think in today's bloated kernel (and other related stuff) world, we should set aside 20G for root (/) [maybe much more. I found the suggestion for 32GB which may be a tad too large, but...] at the minimum during automatic partition. We probably should warn the user if the installer finds the root partition too small. I would rather live with smaller /home partition and larger /root partition. There was enough space in /home to make /root bigger in my case. I got bitten with this issue three times on different machines in the past three years and so decided to the manual partition for a fresh install based on my experience, but I was in a hurry this time and tried netinstall with automatic partition and hit into this problem again. The machine is in limbo because I cannot even remove packages. (I tried setting TMP, TMPDIR, etc. to point to a non-root partition, but to no avail.) I will try re-installing this weekend, but I wanted to report the issue to debian bug system. Where should I report this? Since the installation of Debian GNU/Linux system is NOT in usable state [the partition filled up and many commands refused to run.], I cannot send the bug report from THAT machine. Thank you in advance for your attention. Chiaki Ishikawa
