Hello Holger,
* Holger Wansing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [2006-11-24 20:52 +0100]:
> Partitions: hda1 3,9 GB ext2 as /
> hda2 96 MB as swap (but I tried
> several different schemes, read further)
[...]
> 2. ext3 creation on low memory machines.
> There has been a bugreport on nslu2 where creating
> 1GB ext3 partitions failed (ran out of memory) when
> swap partition was to small.
> I have here a 4GB hard disc and I wasn't able to
> create a ext3 partition of this size (tried with
> different swaps, max was 128 MB). Progress bar froze
> everytime at 33%.
With the nslu2 I've been able to create an ext3 fs on a 1G partition
with 96M swap (see #399951). So there seems to be a relation between the
size of the swap partition and the maximum size of the ext3 fs you can
create.
I don't know, maybe partman-auto could decide the size of the swap area
according to the disk size?
> - Or some note in the manual about this situation?
Yes, I think that documenting this problem would be very useful.
Even if partman-auto could do some magic to setup a swap area big enough
to avoid the problem, the user has always the option to partition the
disk manually (obiouvsly).
ciao,
ema
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