FAI's setup-storage isn't calculating disk sizes properly for some reason.
When the FAI install process goes to partition the hard drive, I get the
following error:
Disk /dev/sda is too small - at least 250062307328 bytes are required
NOTE the above "250062307328" vs the "250059350016" (refer to below info)
that's actually available on the drive.
Here's my DISK_DISK1 config file:
disk_config disk1 align-at:1M disklabel:msdos fstabkey:uuid bootable:1
primary / 30G ext4 rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro tuneopts="-c 0
-i 0"
primary /home 15G- ext4 rw,noatime,nosuid createopts="-L home -m
1" tuneopts="-c 0 -i 0"
logical /var 2G ext4 rw,noatime createopts="-L var -m
5" tuneopts="-c 0 -i 0"
logical swap 4G swap sw
logical /tmp 4G ext4 rw,noatime createopts="-L tmp -m
0" tuneopts="-c 0 -i 0"
The hard drive in the system is a 250GB drive:
% parted -s /dev/sda unit B print free
Model: ATA ST9250410ASG (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 250059350016B
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
32256B 250059350015B 250059317760B Free Space
% parted -s /dev/sda unit chs print free
Model: ATA ST9250410ASG (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 30401,80,62
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
BIOS cylinder,head,sector geometry: 30401,255,63. Each cylinder is 8225kB.
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Type File system Flags
0,1,0 30401,80,62 Free Space
I would think it's the "primary /home 15G- .." line that's causing the
problem, my guess is that setup-storage is making it too large. I tried
changing it to a "logical /home 15G-" to see if that would make a
difference, and it didn't. I then tried removing the "align-at:1M" and
that actually did fix the problem...HOWEVER...it's not an option for me
because then I can't ever use the "preserve" options to preserve a
partition, because then setup-storage complains that the partition
boundaries don't match up, etc. etc. So in order to use any of the
"preserve" options, I need to use the "align-at:1M" option. If
interested in that problem you can refer to the FAI mailing list archives:
https://lists.uni-koeln.de/pipermail/linux-fai/2012-October/009859.html
So does anyone have a clue how I can modify setup-storage to fix the
current problem of not calculating the partition sizes correctly?
"setup-storage -d" doesn't give any more information then what I've
already listed above. My guess is that it's the extended/logical volumes
that are causing the problem, because if I create a disk config like
this with no logical volumes:
disk_config disk1 align-at:1M disklabel:msdos fstabkey:uuid bootable:1
primary / 30G ext4 rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro tuneopts="-c 0
-i 0"
primary /home 15G- ext4 rw,noatime,nosuid createopts="-L home -m
1" tuneopts="-c 0 -i 0"
Then everything is fine.
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!
Craig
