Your message dated Tue, 10 Mar 2026 20:43:23 +0200
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and subject line Fixed in unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #1038411,
regarding calamares: Attempt to grow a EFI partition leads to an installation
failure
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Package: calamares
Severity: important
Tags: d-i
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Dear Maintainer,
I installed Debian Bookworm from a Gnome live USB stick. The installer
complained on an insufficient size of the ESP (200Mb instead of 500). To fix
this I scheduled a resize of the ESP via manual partitioning in the
installation wizard. No warnings were shown notifying me in advance that this
operation cannot be performed. As a result, when I started the installation,
the process was interrupted in the middle of file system rearrangements.
Workaround: I had to backup, manually remove, recreate the EFI partition with a
desired size and restore its content.
Expected behavior: Either add support for growing FAT32 EFI partitions, or
prevent the user to select unsupported operations before the installation
started.
Here is the output of the installer:
Grow partition ‘/dev/sdb1’ from 260.00 MiB to 515.00 MiB
Job: Check file system on partition ‘/dev/sdb1’
Command: fsck.fat -a -w -v /dev/sdb1
Job: Set geometry of partition ‘/dev/sdb1’: Start sector: 2,048, length:
1,054,720
Command: sfdisk --force /dev/sdb -N 1
Job: Resize file system on partition ‘/dev/sdb1’ to 1,054,720 sectors
Resizing file system from 532,480 to 1,054,720 sectors.
The file system on partition ‘/dev/sdb1’ cannot be resized because there is no
support for it.
Resize/move failed: Could not resize the file system on partition ‘/dev/sdb1’
Job: Set geometry of partition ‘/dev/sdb1’: Start sector: 2,048, length:
532,480
Command: sfdisk --force /dev/sdb -N 1
Resizing/moving partition ‘/dev/sdb1’ failed.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.0
APT prefers stable-security
APT policy: (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-9-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages calamares depends on:
pn kpackagetool5 <none>
pn libboost-python1.74.0 <none>
pn libboost-python1.74.0-py311 <none>
ii libc6 2.36-9
ii libcrypt1 1:4.4.33-2
ii libgcc-s1 12.2.0-14
pn libkf5configcore5 <none>
pn libkf5coreaddons5 <none>
pn libkf5package5 <none>
pn libkf5parts5 <none>
pn libkpmcore12 <none>
ii libparted2 3.5-3
ii libpwquality1 1.4.5-1+b1
ii libpython3.11 3.11.2-6
ii libqt5core5a 5.15.8+dfsg-11
ii libqt5dbus5 5.15.8+dfsg-11
ii libqt5gui5 5.15.8+dfsg-11
ii libqt5network5 5.15.8+dfsg-11
ii libqt5qml5 5.15.8+dfsg-3
ii libqt5quick5 5.15.8+dfsg-3
ii libqt5quickwidgets5 5.15.8+dfsg-3
ii libqt5svg5 5.15.8-3
ii libqt5webkit5 5.212.0~alpha4-30
ii libqt5widgets5 5.15.8+dfsg-11
ii libqt5xml5 5.15.8+dfsg-11
ii libstdc++6 12.2.0-14
pn libyaml-cpp0.7 <none>
ii os-prober 1.81
Versions of packages calamares recommends:
ii btrfs-progs 6.2-1
ii squashfs-tools 1:4.5.1-1
calamares suggests no packages.
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--- Begin Message ---
This no longer seems to occur with Calamares 3.4.2 on unstable.
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