Can't create fat16 partition

Bug #151645 reported by Loïc Minier
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partman-partitioning
Fix Released
Unknown
partman-partitioning (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

Hi,

I created a bunch of partitions to test the gutsy RC DVD, some primary, some logical; I created small partitions for almost all available filesystems: xfs, jfs, fat32, fat16; the fat16 partition couldn't be created, I got a popup which said (translated from French) "Couldn't create the fat16 filesystem on partition 6 of SCSI (0,0,0) (sda)".

Will attach /var/log/partman.

Bye,

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Loïc Minier (lool) wrote :

NB: I selected 10 MB for the partition size and before creation they were rounded up as 8 MB in the partition list; I don't know whether fat16 is sensible to this particular size.

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Loïc Minier (lool) wrote :

For the record, after this failure, all configuration of the partition types / mountpoint etc. was gone.

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Loïc Minier (lool) wrote :

Also happens with fat32.

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Loïc Minier (lool) wrote :

Err also fails for jfs; I guess all these file systems fail when the size of the partition is too small?

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Loïc Minier (lool) wrote :

And also fails for xfs; that'd be it.

The only thing which doesn't fail is reiserfs, but it freezes the installer in virtualbox; cough.

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Loïc Minier (lool) wrote :

I reported bug #151670 for the reiserfs freeze.

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xteejx (xteejx-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

Changed in partman-partitioning (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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xteejx (xteejx-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

Changed in partman-partitioning (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Invalid
Loïc Minier (lool)
Changed in partman-partitioning (Ubuntu):
status: Invalid → New
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Loïc Minier (lool) wrote :

Pretty sure this still applies with very small partitions since I don't think we added any code check

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xteejx (xteejx-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

No worries, thanks for updating this.
Marking Confirmed, Low - creating a "tiny" FAT16 partition is quite an unlikely option, but a bug nonetheless.

Changed in partman-partitioning (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Confirmed
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xteejx (xteejx-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

I should have marked this Triaged, so have done so, will also report to Debian and link that in.

Changed in partman-partitioning (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Changed in partman-partitioning:
status: Unknown → New
Changed in partman-partitioning:
status: New → Fix Released
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