Bug#985463: debian-installer: kernel complains about /boot partition in LVM install (ext2 filesystem being mounted at /boot supports timestamps until 2038)
On 3/18/21 9:08 PM, Charles Curley wrote:
How much memory does the computer have?
It is a VM with 1GB of RAM.
On my FIT-PCs, using the same
installer (but with firmware), I see that debian installer (d-i) goes
to ext2 rather than ext4. They have 228Mi of physical memory. On my IBM
R51, with 1.2Gi of physical memory, I do not see this; I get ext4.
It is strange that the choice of FS depends on the amount of RAM. Did you use LVM on both systems?
[...] and I don't know how to check the size of my inodes.
You can see it with tune2fs, for instance:
# tune2fs -l /dev/sda1
[...]
Inode size: 256
But my work-around is to upgrade from ext2 to ext4, like so:
tune2fs -O extent,huge_file,flex_bg,dir_nlink,extra_isize,has_journal\
${dev}
I think that changing inode sizes can only be done by recreating the FS.
N.b.: Apparently on an upgrade like this, we can't do metadata_csum or
64bit.
32->64 bits can be done, but that's another story...
I don't know if it will solve your problem, but you are welcome to try
Thanks, but what I usually do is to get rid of the /boot partition. However that leaves a small unused disk space at the beginning of the disk.
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Laurent.
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