On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Lukasz Szybalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 11:21 PM, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 04 March 2008, Lukasz Szybalski wrote: > > > I set the raid 5 partition as a lvm group and not I am trying to > > > create lvm partition for my home at 1450GB. I keep getting the error > > > that partition size 0 cannot be created. > > > > Could you please file a bug report against partman-lvm for this issue? > > > > > > > Here is a syslog. > > > I don't know why but when I want to create lvm volume: > > > 1497303MB is my initial setting. > > > I can just hit enter to 1497303MB and it will take it. > > > > > > But if I pick 1457303MB I get an error. > > > > That's certainly strange. Could possibly have to do with rounding > functions. > > > > > > > What is going on with these numbers. syslog tells me that 1.36 TB is > > > only available? Shouldn't that be 1.4xx TB? > > > > There is some confusion inside partman and between partman and other tools > > about how disk sizes are presented. Disk capacity is usually given as a > > power of 10, while other sizes are in multiples of bytes (power of 2). > > So 40MB can be either 40.000.000 bytes or 41.943.040 (40*1024*1024). > > > > You are correct on this one. Finally after 4h of reserach I realized > that 500Gb drive is in reality 465GiB. So 1.3Tb 465*3 is about right. > So there seem to be a miss match of what is displayed and what it is > in reality. In real world the drive is 465Gib and that is what I > should see. > > The partition screen shows the lvm group partition as 1.5TB, but when > you go into add first partition it wants the actual GiB size (max > 1.5Tb =max 1.3Tb). > Not sure why it let me put into 1497303MB (all space) but not > 1497000Mb etc. If you recalculate by hand how much space you have in > GiB then its easy from there. Confusion introduced by 500Gb =465Gib > has everybody confused I guess. It would be much easier if everything > was in GiB > > > > So final setting was to make one partition 1.1Tb and rest with rest of space. > > So I guess the partition screen should either show you (1500GB / 1395 > GiB ) or it should pick one(GiB preffered). My guess would to be make > Gib a default since that is the size I will see when I do 'df -h' when > its all said and done. I guess at Tera size the Gib vs GB measurement > is huge! > > > > > > > > Can somebody explain why I cannot create my 1.45 tb and rest as swap > > > partitions? > > > > A solution could be to create the swap first at the required size. > > > > > > > Also why sys log tells me I have 1.36 even do other > > > screens tell me that my lvm group holds 1.5tb? > > > > See above. > > > > > > > I tried both. installgui and install when setting these up. > > > > That should not make any difference. > > > > > > Could you run a new installation and, before partman is started, add a > > line 'set -x' near the top of /lib/partman/definitions.sh? > > That will give a huge amount of debugging output in the syslog, but should > > tell us exactly where the error comes from when you reproduce it. > > > > Please attach the syslog (gzipped) to your bug report. > > > I'm sorry I won't be able to provide any more logs. I have installed > debian already and both raid 1 and raid 5 are setup. The computer will > go into production soon. I will report the bug and provide logs I had. > > I submitted a bug for this: 471764
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=471764 THanks, Lucas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
