Installation • Partman modifies USB drive from which debian is being installed in UEFI mode

Hello,

Thank you for providing more information.

The error message is generated by a component (a library named libparted2) used by the partman program to handle disk partitioning on behalf the debian installer; the involved source code is:

• sources / parted / 3.5-3 / libparted / arch / linux.c al line 3226 in the function named _disk_sync_part_table:

  Code:

  /* * Sync the partition table in two step process: * 1. Remove all of the partitions from the kernel's tables, but do not attempt *    removal of any partition for which the corresponding ioctl call fails. * 2. Add all the partitions that we hold in disk, throwing a warning *    if we cannot because step 1 failed to remove it and it is not being *    added back with the same start and length. * * To achieve this two step process we must calculate the minimum number of * maximum possible partitions between what linux supports and what the label * type supports. EX: * * number=MIN(max_parts_supported_in_linux,max_parts_supported_in_msdos_tables) */static int_disk_sync_part_table (PedDisk* disk){[..]        if (bad_part_list == NULL)                ret = 1;        else {                bad_part_list[strlen (bad_part_list) - 2] = 0;                if (ped_exception_throw (                        PED_EXCEPTION_ERROR,                        PED_EXCEPTION_IGNORE_CANCEL,                        _("Partition(s) %s on %s have been written, but we have "                          "been unable to inform the kernel of the change, "                          "probably because it/they are in use.  As a result, "                          "the old partition(s) will remain in use.  You "                          "should reboot now before making further changes."),                        bad_part_list, disk->dev->path) == PED_EXCEPTION_IGNORE)                        ret = 1;                free (bad_part_list);        }

As far as I can understand, the program that does the partitioning on behalf of the Debian installer attempts to update the copy of the partition tables used by the Linux kernel after the partitioning of the installed disk has been completed.

Further analysis is required to reproduce the problem.

Statistics: Posted by Aki — 2024-10-15 21:12 — Replies 8 — Views 370

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