Hi, and thanks for your report. gisl@leonde.de <gisl@leonde.de> (2016-01-10): > Package: partman-base > Version: 188 > Severity: important > > --- Please enter the report below this line. --- > I just installed a new stretch system using the alpha 4 netinst image, manual > install. The root partition that I chose already had a filesystem. When parted > wanted to create the filesystem, it hung. > > I went to another console and saw a process mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda3. I killed the > process in order to relieve the hanging partman. Curious, as to why the > mkfs.ext4 hung, I called it manually, and it told me that the partition > already had a filesystem and asked me whether I really wanted to format it. I > said yes and let partman do the job again. This time it didn't hang. > > I guess it should run mkfs.ext4 in non-interactive "yes, really do it and > don't ask me any questions" mode or something like that. That's unfortunately a known issue but noone has taken the time to fix it yet… :( Possibly to be fixed in partman-ext3's commit.d/format_ext3 which I believe is what we're using even if we're now using ext4. [ To be backported to stable when fixed, too… ] Mraw, KiBi.
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