Re: partman review

[Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg>]

On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 12:08:03PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> 
> > With "make TYPE=.... demo" I am unable to reproduce the bugs with the
> > missing swap, forced ext3 and the strange /var/lib.  I suppose that
> > they all have one common reason related to cdebconf.
> 
> Does partman ask the filesystem type at a medium or low priority
> perhaps?

No.  

I have observed misterious artifacts similar to /var/lib when I
communicated with cdebconf from a pipe.  For example in a construction
like this one:

cat something | while read x; do some_communication with cdebconf; done

> 2.1 gb of swap space? My. Ok, I guess that makes sense that that's what
> it is though it seems a trifle huge.

The upper bound of the swap space is four times the RAM.  You have
large enough hard disk so the size of the swap space reaches this
upper bound.

Anton Zinoviev