Re: bugs in partman-auto_41 (trying to create 3 primary partitions with preseed)

[stappers@stappers.nl (Geert Stappers)]

On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 05:38:10PM +0100, Steven Van Acker wrote:
> Hello,
> 
  <snip/> 
> I have found some problems in that regard:
> 
> - The first partition doesn't start from byte 0 but from byte 32256.
>   This is only about 32KB, but big enough to cause problems. As far as I
>   can see, partman-auto doesn't take that into consideration.
> 
> - Sizes expressed in bytes are rounded to megabytes by dropping the last
>   6 digits. Shouldn't they be divided by 1024*1024 ?

mega is indeed 10**6 mi is 2**20

partman does powers of ten

> - Asking for a partition of N bytes does not mean you get exactly N
>   bytes. In my case, I wanted a partition of 64MB for /boot.
>   partman-auto translated that to 64000001 bytes and when the partition
>   was finally created, it was 65802240 bytes. That's a lot of extra
>   bytes.
>   
> 
> Are any of these problems already known and maybe fixed in a later
> release ?

Known problems of partman-auto are filed at
 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?which=pkg&data=partman-auto

> I hope this information is useful (at least it got rid of some
> frustration om my end) 
> 
> greets,
> -- Steven

HtH
GSt