On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 08:46:58PM -0800, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * HAND, RAY <[email protected]> [2009-09-09 21:09]: > > Package: Partman-ext3 > > Version: 2.6.26-2 > > > > In the partition disks screen I get the error: > > > > The ext3 file system creation in partition #1 of DASD 0.0.0300 (ECKD) > > failed. > > I'm sorry that nobody responded to the bug report you filed back in > 2009. Do you still have access to this system? > > s390: maybe you can take a brief look at the logs to see if that's > still relevant. > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=545906 > 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 and kind regards, Hendrik
