Bug#721847: mkfs.btrfs -f

2014-03-18 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On 18 March 2014 20:45, Miguel Figueiredo wrote: > According mkfs.btrfs manpage the behaviour is expected: > > -f, --force > Force overwrite when an existing filesystem is detected on the > device. By default, mkfs.btrfs will not write to the device if it suspects > that there is a

Bug#721847: mkfs.btrfs -f

2014-03-18 Thread Miguel Figueiredo
According mkfs.btrfs manpage the behaviour is expected: -f, --force Force overwrite when an existing filesystem is detected on the device. By default, mkfs.btrfs will not write to the device if it suspects that there is a filesystem or partition table on the device already. I

Bug#721847:

2014-02-16 Thread Chris Bainbridge
The severity of this bug should be higher as it breaks the Debian installer in many use cases that would otherwise work (eg. user creates partitions on a multiple OS system outside of debian installer, then boots into installer to do the install - this should work, but instead it now fails if the u

Bug#721847:

2014-02-16 Thread Chris Bainbridge
This bug also causes the debian installer to fail with "Partition Disk Failed to create a file system." when btrfs is chosen. With ext2 it works fine. I'm not sure whether this is a bug with mkfs.btrfs (for not allowing overwrite of an existing filesystem), or with the debian installer (for not usi

Bug#721847: Partitioning failed when using btrfs as filesystem

2013-09-04 Thread Bernhard
Package: installation-reports Boot method: USB-Stick Image version: Self-made ISO image on USB stick with sid installer Date: 2013-09-04 Machine: ASUS Laptop Z7750 Processor: Pentium M @ 1,6GHz Memory: 512MB Partitions: /dev/sda1 15GB / (should be format with btrfs) /dev/sda52GB