Re: Shrinking HFS+ causes fatal out of memory

[Sven Luther]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 09:00:56PM +0200, K.G. wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 19:55:41 +0200 Sven Luther <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 04:54:03PM +0200, K.G. wrote:
> > > On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 16:30:21 +0200 Sven Luther <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 04:21:05PM +0200, K.G. wrote:
> > > > > Hi and thanks for your bug report,
> > > > > 
> > > > > On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 21:01:05 +0800 Nick Bower <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > > > > Thanks.  Unfortunately this is not so easy however - G5's don't 
> > > > > > have a 
> > > > > > floppy drive (great huh).  Although I'll give it a shot trying to 
> > > > > > create 
> > > > > > a boot cd or something.
> > > > > 
> > > > > I think there are some gentoo live cd for PPC with gcc.
> > > > > If you succeed in building Parted yourself, I would like
> > > > > you do it with the --enable-hfs-extract-fs
> > > > 
> > > > Just boot the debian installer (preferably sid daily builds) and go 
> > > > upto the
> > > > partman step, go to partition 2, and launch parted.
> > > 
> > > Well the problem is that I really doubt Parted on the Debian Installer is 
> > > build
> > > with the --enable-hfs-extract-fs option (it should not be anyway...), so
> > > that will only give him the lastest version (which is already quite good)
> > > but not the capability to extract the file system structures.
> > > I did a quick review of differncies between the HFS code of 1.6.22 and 
> > > SVN,
> > > and I don't think the version will make any difference in his case, but
> > > maybe I'm wrong... If I'm not the file system structures would be very 
> > > useful
> > > to understand what's happening.
> > 
> > Well, then :
> > 
> >   rebuild the package with this option.
> > 
> >   get the d-i stuff from svn
> > 
> >   add the rebuilt packages to localudebs
> > 
> >   add libparted .udeb to pkg-lists/(netboot|cdrom|hd-media)/local
> > 
> >   rebuild the initrd.
> > 
> >   use it with th rest of d-i, preferably netboot or hd-media.
> > 
> > Friendly,
> > 
> > Sven Luther
> > 
> 
> Waouh, sounds complicated. I doubt I can reasonably ask any user that
> report a bug with HFS to do that kind of stuff, they will find that
> too complicated :p

No, but we could build such a thing and provide it to users, if you want i can
do one tomorrow. What is exactly the option you need and what does it do ?

I also have my own built initrd kernels which include parted, but they are
geared toward pegasos hardware. I think we may be able to produce something
using yaird though, more to this later on, need to get 2.6.14-rc kernels out
first.

Friendly,

Sven Luther