Bug#412624: partman-auto: all files in one partition fails on 1.2TB disk

[dann frazier <dannf@debian.org>]

On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 12:59:47PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 February 2007 04:45, dann frazier wrote:
> > I tested today's daily netinst build of i386 on a machine w/ a 1.2TB
> > logical disk and found that it silently fails to calculate partition
> > sizes.
> 
> I suspect this is because the maximum partition sizes in the recipe don't 
> add up to something that is larger than 1.2TB. Can you try raising the 
> upper limit for / before starting partman?
> 
> 128 512 256 ext3
> 	[...]
>         mountpoint{ /boot } .
> 
> 500 10000 1000000 ext3
> 	[...]
>         mountpoint{ / } .
> 
> 96 512 300% linux-swap
> 	[...]

Thanks for the suggestion Frans. I added a 0 to the 1000000, and it
gave me:

SCSI.CCISS (-,0,0) (cciss/c0d0) - 1.2 TB Compaq Smart Array
       #1 primary    1.2 TB B f ext3       /
       #5 logical    2.7 GB   f swap       swap

So, bumping the limit clearly worked - but if Gordon Moore has
anything to say about it, I'll just need to up it again in 2014 :)

Perhaps we should set it to 16384 GB[1]?

According to Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt, this is the
filesystem size limit for architectures with a 4kB PAGE SIZE
Architectures that use larger pages (alpha, ia64, etc) can go
up to 32768 GB.
-- 
dann frazier