Re: [rhel6-branch] [PATCH] Show proper message when we cannot allocate enough space for / and swap

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On Fri, 2012-04-27 at 13:02 -0500, David Lehman wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-04-27 at 12:07 +0200, Vratislav Podzimek wrote:
> > We try to create swap big enough for hibernation in autopartioning,
> > but this can be a problem on machines with a lot of RAM and small disks.
> > Since we shouldn't create swap not enough big for hibernation, just
> > let users know they should use custom partitioning in such cases.
> > 
> > Resolves: rhbz#815557
> > 
> > <not-in-commit-message>
> > This patch means that we don't need flexible swap suggestions, agreed?
> > </not-in-commit-message>
> 
> I don't even care if we have flexible suggestions, but if you remove the
> ranges, you should remove the code that is only there to accommodate the
> ranges.
Do we want to make such a change on the rhel6-branch? I'd rather leave
it there and change this only on master.

> 
> > ---
> >  storage/partitioning.py |   17 ++++++++++++++++-
> >  1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/storage/partitioning.py b/storage/partitioning.py
> > index b038c23..d8a5a6a 100644
> > --- a/storage/partitioning.py
> > +++ b/storage/partitioning.py
> > @@ -1716,7 +1716,22 @@ def growLVM(storage):
> >          if total_free < 0:
> >              # by now we have allocated the PVs so if there isn't enough
> >              # space in the VG we have a real problem
> > -            raise PartitioningError("not enough space for LVM requests")
> > +
> > +            # if we cannot allocate enough space for / and swap, show
> > +            # proper error message
> > +            swap_plus_root = 0
> > +            for lv in vg.lvs:
> > +                if lv.format.type == "swap" or lv.format.mountpoint == "/":
> > +                    swap_plus_root += lv.minSize
> 
> You should sum up lv.req_size values. minSize is the minimum size for
> existing devices or filesystems and is used as a lower bound for resize.
I've checked that and req_size for / was about 50 GB even when I had 5
GB virtual drive. So that would be triggered almost every time.

> 
> > +
> > +            additional_msg = ""
> > +            if swap_plus_root > vg.size:
> > +                additional_msg = "\n\nCannot allocate enough space for / "\
> > +                                 "and swap big enough to allow hibernation.\n"\
> > +                                 "Use custom partitioning, please."
> > +
> > +            raise PartitioningError("not enough space for LVM requests" +
> > +                                    additional_msg)
> 
> This will get triggered for cases other than the one you are describing.
> Perhaps you should add a check that swap is the same size as ram?
Good point, thanks.

-- 
Vratislav Podzimek <vpodzime@xxxxxxxxxx>

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