** Package changed: debian-installer (Ubuntu) => partman-partitioning
(Ubuntu)
** Changed in: partman-partitioning (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Low
** Changed in: partman-partitioning (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Triaged
** Description changed:
- On a server, I have three disks:
-
- /dev/cciss/c0d0 <- onboard RAID LUN of 146GB
- /dev/sda, /dev/sdb <- SAN LUNs of 2.4TB each
-
- I am attempting to install Ubuntu Server 10.04.4 on this machine.
-
- During partitioning, I elected to do manual partitioning. I created a
- 140GB root filesystem partition on the onboard RAID and also a 6GB swap
- partition on the RAID device.
-
- Next, I attempted to create a single 2.4GB partition on the first SAN
- device, /dev/sda.
-
- From the manual partiton summary screen in d-i, I chose sda. On the next
- screen I chose "Create a new partition". On the next screen, the
- partition creation screen, I am told that the maxiumum size I can create
- is 2.4 TB. So I create a single 2.4TB partition to be used to store
- data and hit Continue.
-
- This moves me to the Primary or Logical screen and I chose to make this
- a Primary partition.
-
- When I click Continue, I am brought to an Error screen that says the
- following:
-
- "partition length of 4683671552 sectors exceeds the msdos-partition-
- table-imposed maximum of 4294967295"
-
- Clicking continue here brings me back to the partition summary screen
- without my new partition. I am not given the option at any point to use
- a different partition table layout that DOES support 2.4TB partitions.
- As this is geared toward servers, and undoubtedly, servers have a very
- good chance of having more than 2TB of disk storage that need to be
- partitioned off, this is a big weakness in the Ubuntu Server installer.
+ If you have a disk that is larger than the 2TiB limit for the dos
+ partition table, but it has a dos partition table on it, d-i offers the
+ free space line that lets you choose to create a primary/logical
+ partition in the dos partition table. It offers a maximum size greater
+ than the 2tb dos partition table limit and if you select that size, it
+ then errors trying to create it. If you hit enter on the whole disk
+ instead of the free space, it correctly offers to create an empty ( gpt
+ ) partition table, and all is well. If you are still using a dos
+ partition table, then it should not offer to create partitions that do
+ not fit.
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debian-installer unable to create 2.4TB partition
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