Package: partman-auto Version: partman-auto Severity: important Tags: d-i Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation? Trying to pressed the debian installer for automatic partitionning. * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? Used these preseed rules: ---- d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/sda d-i partman-auto/method string lvm d-i partman-auto/expert_recipe string \ arcadia :: \ 30 50 100 ext4 \ $primary{ } $bootable{ } \ method{ format } format{ } \ use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext4 } \ mountpoint{ /boot } \ . \ 64 1024 300% linux-swap \ method{ swap } format{ } \ . \ 1980 3000 -1 ext4 \ $defaultignore{ } \ $primary{ } \ method{ lvm } \ device{ /dev/sda } \ vg_name{ system } \ . \ 60 100 150 ext4 \ $lvmok{ } in_vg{ system } lv_name{ root } \ method{ format } format{ } \ use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext4 } \ mountpoint{ / } \ . \ 750 1000 15000 ext4 \ $lvmok{ } in_vg{ system } lv_name{ usr } \ method{ format } format{ } \ use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext4 } \ mountpoint{ /usr } \ . \ 10 20 30 ext4 \ $lvmok{ } in_vg{ system } lv_name{ home } \ method{ format } format{ } \ use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext4 } \ mountpoint{ /home } \ . \ 10 20 30 ext4 \ $lvmok{ } in_vg{ system } lv_name{ roothome } \ method{ format } format{ } \ use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext4 } \ mountpoint{ /root } \ . \ 20 30 50 ext4 \ $lvmok{ } in_vg{ system } lv_name{ tmp } \ method{ format } format{ } \ use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext4 } \ mountpoint{ /tmp } \ . \ 800 1000 10000 ext4 \ $lvmok{ } in_vg{ system } lv_name{ var } \ method{ format } format{ } \ use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext4 } \ mountpoint{ /var } \ . \ 250 500 1000 ext4 \ $lvmok{ } in_vg{ system } lv_name{ log } \ method{ format } format{ } \ use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext4 } \ mountpoint{ /var/log } \ . \ 10 20 10000 ext4 \ $lvmok{ } in_vg{ system } lv_name{ local } \ method{ format } format{ } \ use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext4 } \ mountpoint{ /usr/local } \ . \ 10 20 30 ext4 \ $lvmok{ } in_vg{ system } lv_name{ srv } \ method{ format } format{ } \ use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext4 } \ mountpoint{ /srv } \ . ---- * What was the outcome of this action? Partitionning fails with the following message in syslog: "partman-auto: Available disk space (2147) too small for expert recipe(3994); skipping" * What outcome did you expect instead? Partitionning successfull, with LVM setup correctly. The computed size should be /boot + swap + VG(system) = 2074, which would fit on the disk (2147). I believe the problem to be in lib/recipes.sh, function min_size, which adds the min_size of _all_ partitions, including those that are LV setup to be part of a VG. As a result, the computed min_size is larger than what it would actually be. I'm sorry i can't work on a patch, since it is more complicated that just ignoring partitions using $lvmok{ }, and i don't have time right now. The function should also check that all the LVs can fit in their designated VG, which may not be defined in the recipe (default one, or created by another mean before partman-auto) -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.4 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (700, 'stable-updates'), (700, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)