Default partitioning on LVM-LUKS provides too small /

From: Didier Raboud <didier(at)raboud.com>
Date: Sun Jul 01 2007 - 05:19:11 EDT

Hi,

the default debian-boot partitioning above LVM-LUKS provides too small / : it is not possible to have two kernels installed and to update one of them.

On the infos below, you'll see reiserfs, which is personal modification, but sizes have not been modified.

I don't know exactly if this list is the right place for such complains, so please direct me to the right place if necessary.

Best regards,

Didier Raboud

N.B. Please CC me, I'm not on the list.

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# aptitude
(...)
Preparing to replace linux-image-2.6.22-rc6-amd64 2.6.22~rc6-1~experimental.1~snapshot.9027 (using .../linux-image-2.6.22-rc6-amd64_2.6.22~rc6-1~experimental.1~snapshot.9038_amd64.deb) ... The directory /lib/modules/2.6.22-rc6-amd64 still exists. Continuing as directed.
Done.
Unpacking replacement linux-image-2.6.22-rc6-amd64 ... dpkg: error
processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-2.6.22-rc6-amd64_2.6.22~rc6-1~experimental.1~snapshot.9038_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 failed in buffer_write(fd) (9, ret=-1): backend dpkg-deb during `./lib/modules/2.6.22-rc6-amd64/kernel/fs/gfs2/gfs2.ko': No space left on device
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Running postrm hook script /sbin/update-grub. You shouldn't call /sbin/update-grub. Please call /usr/sbin/update-grub instead!  

Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub Searching for default file ... found: /boot/grub/default Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst Searching for splash image ... found: /boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz

Found kernel: /vmlinuz-2.6.22-rc6-amd64
Found kernel: /vmlinuz-2.6.21-2-amd64
Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... Updating the default booting kernel

done  

Errors were encountered while processing:  /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-2.6.22-rc6-amd64_2.6.22~rc6-1~experimental.1~snapshot.9038_amd64.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: Press return to continue.

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$ df -h
Sys. de fich. Tail. Occ. Disp. %Occ. Monté sur /dev/mapper/Tamino-root

                      276M  218M   59M  79% /
tmpfs                1004M     0 1004M   0% /lib/init/rw
udev                   10M   72K   10M   1% /dev
tmpfs                1004M     0 1004M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1             236M   33M  192M  15% /boot
/dev/mapper/Tamino-home
                       98G  2.1G   96G   3% /home
/dev/mapper/Tamino-tmp
                      392M   33M  360M   9% /tmp
/dev/mapper/Tamino-usr
                      4.8G  2.4G  2.5G  49% /usr
/dev/mapper/Tamino-var
                      2.9G  1.5G  1.4G  53% /var

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$ mount
/dev/mapper/Tamino-root on / type reiserfs (rw) tmpfs on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755) proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) procbususb on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620)

/dev/sda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw,commit=600)
/dev/mapper/Tamino-home on /home type reiserfs (rw)
/dev/mapper/Tamino-tmp on /tmp type reiserfs (rw)
/dev/mapper/Tamino-usr on /usr type reiserfs (rw)
/dev/mapper/Tamino-var on /var type reiserfs (rw)

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Received on Sun Jul 1 05:57:48 2007