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Re: Shrinking HFS+ causes fatal out of memory


From: K.G.
Subject: Re: Shrinking HFS+ causes fatal out of memory
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 21:00:56 +0200

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
So maybe I could find a PPC where I could try to build an image like
that so I would just give the URL and instruction to people reporting
HFS bugs.

Cheers,
Guillaume Knispel




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