* Hendrik Brueckner <[email protected]> [2016-02-17 08:57]: > According to the syslog, partman tried to access beyond the size of the > DASD. Because partman-ext3 works today, I suspect that the problem has > been solved in last years. I can only suspect about the root case but > I ran into a similar issue (other work area) where the calculation of > the DASD size was wrong due to incorrect use of ioctl. There are ioctl > that return the size in bytes and blocks (I think there was a 32 and 64 > bit variant, which returned in different units). So the size calculation > was broken and I received the same error message. Maybe partman-ext3 > was also affected by this change. Not sure. > > For short: I would suggest to close this bug and re-open if the problem > still persists.
Thanks, closing the bug. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/

