269035 – mkfs.ext2/3 note for small disks (prevent inode consumption)

Bug 269035 - mkfs.ext2/3 note for small disks (prevent inode consumption)

Summary: mkfs.ext2/3 note for small disks (prevent inode consumption)

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	[OLD] Docs on www.gentoo.org
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Installation Handbook (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High minor (vote)
Assignee:	nm (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2009-05-08 15:15 UTC by nEJC
Modified:	2009-06-14 10:17 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description nEJC 2009-05-08 15:15:47 UTC

Doing test install onto a small disk caused complete inode consumption during install (followed handbook line by line, testing on small virtual disk in virtualbox)
Emerge crashed with "no space left on device" error.

Same problem and solution here:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-distributions-5/gentoo-is-it-possible-to-install-onto-a-2.4gb-partition-699010/



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. try to install gentoo on a small partition (less than 4Gb)

Actual Results:  
install unable to continue

Expected Results:  
os installed without a hitch

There should be a notice in handbook that creating small ext2/3 file system requires setting usage-type to small

mke2fs -T small /dev/sda1

Comment 1 nm (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-06-14 10:17:05 UTC

Added the info to the shared hb-install-filesystems.xml doc so that all handbooks see the note.

Fixed in CVS.