Re: Bug#545906: Debian S390 Install Failed to create a file system during installer process
* Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [2016-02-17 08:57]:
> According to the syslog, partman tried to access beyond the size of the
> DASD. Because partman-ext3 works today, I suspect that the problem has
> been solved in last years. I can only suspect about the root case but
> I ran into a similar issue (other work area) where the calculation of
> the DASD size was wrong due to incorrect use of ioctl. There are ioctl
> that return the size in bytes and blocks (I think there was a 32 and 64
> bit variant, which returned in different units). So the size calculation
> was broken and I received the same error message. Maybe partman-ext3
> was also affected by this change. Not sure.
>
> For short: I would suggest to close this bug and re-open if the problem
> still persists.
Thanks, closing the bug.
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Martin Michlmayr
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