Package: partman-basicfilesystems Severity: normal Tags: d-i I did an install where /var was an ext2 partition, of size 2.8 gb (the size picked by partman-auto/multi-user-system on this ~30 gb drive). I told it to reserve 10% of the disk and use the largefile4 block size. This resulted in something weird; during debootstrap, dpkg failed to unpack files into /var with errors about it being out of space. But once debootstrap failed, only about 28 mb of /var was used; there were gigabytes free. I tried turning off largefile4, and debootstrap runs ok. Likewise, if I leave largefile4 on, and set reseved to 2% or 1%, debootstrap runs. But there seems to be something bad about the combination of largefile4 and 10% reseved disk, I can reproduce the problem with that. The error messages from dpkg were of this ilk: tar: ./postrm: Cannot open: No space left on device unable to create updated files list file for package net-tools: No space left on device dpkg: error while cleaning up: unable to create /var/lib/dpkg/updates/tmp.i: No space left on device Segmentation fault After this failure, I tried dding 1 gb of /dev/null to /var/lib/dpkg/foo, and it went off without a hitch. Weird! (Installing using 8 sept sid_d-i netinst iso with 2.4.27 kernel.) -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.27 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US -- see shy jo
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