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Bug#853218: marked as done (Error message for disk is too small" should be more informative)

Your message dated Fri, 22 Nov 2024 14:41:42 +0100
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has caused the Debian Bug report #853218,
regarding Error message for disk is too small" should be more informative
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Package: partman-auto
Version: 137
Severity: normal

(Just debugged a problem with KiBi and weasel, installing an arm64
VM.)

If there is a problem with disk size that means auto-partitioning is
going to fail, be more informative: say what needs to be bigger. In
our particular case, the system has *lots* of RAM available, bigger
than the small-ish root disk that we're looking to partition. This led
to confusion - a clear error from choose_recipe() would help, at the
very least in the partman logfile.

Maybe we should be listing what recipes we're looking at while we're
checking them here? It's not like the partman logfile is exactly
quiet anyway!

Maybe also build a list of reasons why each of the auto-install
recipes doesn't work, that we can tell the user in the error message
dialog?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.7
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

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Version: 167

> If there is a problem with disk size that means auto-partitioning is
> going to fail, be more informative: say what needs to be bigger. In
> our particular case, the system has *lots* of RAM available, bigger
> than the small-ish root disk that we're looking to partition. This led
> to confusion - a clear error from choose_recipe() would help, at the
> very least in the partman logfile.

First point:
we have improved dialog messages these days like

_Description: Failed to partition the selected disk
 This probably happened because the selected disk or free space is too
 small to be automatically partitioned.

_Description: Failed to partition the selected disk
 This probably happened because there are too many (primary) partitions in
 the partition table.



Second point:
Shortly a new recipe has been added to partman-auto, dedicated for servers,
or in other words: for machines, which have more RAM than disk space.
This server recipe limits the created swap partition to 1G.
So this recipe would work in the described case here too.


Closing this bug


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