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Bug#400263: installation report: low memory install (kbd-chooser and ext3 creation)



Hello Holger,

* Holger Wansing <linux@wansing-online.de>, [2006-11-24 20:52 +0100]:
>  Partitions: 	hda1	3,9 GB ext2 as /
>  		hda2	96 MB as swap	(but I tried
>  			several different schemes, read further)
[...]

>  2. ext3 creation on low memory machines.
>     There has been a bugreport on nslu2 where creating 
>     1GB ext3 partitions failed (ran out of memory) when
>     swap partition was to small.
>     I have here a 4GB hard disc and I wasn't able to
>     create a ext3 partition of this size (tried with
>     different swaps, max was 128 MB). Progress bar froze
>     everytime at 33%.

With the nslu2 I've been able to create an ext3 fs on a 1G partition
with 96M swap (see #399951). So there seems to be a relation between the
size of the swap partition and the maximum size of the ext3 fs you can
create.

I don't know, maybe  partman-auto could decide the size of the swap area
according to the disk size?

>  	- Or some note in the manual about this situation?

Yes, I think that documenting this problem would be very useful.

Even if partman-auto could do some magic to setup a swap area big enough
to avoid the problem, the user has always the option to partition the
disk manually (obiouvsly). 

ciao,
    ema



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