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Pop_OS! 21.04 Installer fails to check for sufficient space before installing #161

Closed MrChromebox closed 3 years ago

MrChromebox commented 3 years ago

Issue/Bug Description:

Pop_OS! 21.04 beta fails to install due to insufficient space; doesn't check before install, doesn't report reason for installation failure. syslog reports:

pop-os io.elementary.installer.desktop[2380]: [WARN distinst:crates/chroot/src/command.rs:98] E: Write error - write (28: No space left on device)

Steps to reproduce:

Attempt to install Pop_OS 21.04 beta (clean) on a ChromeOS device with 16GB internal storage

Expected behavior:

Pop_OS! installer refuses to install due to insufficient space on the drive

mmstick commented 3 years ago

There is an insufficient space check, but perhaps its underestimating here. Maybe it's best to ditch the recovery partition with such a small amount of storage. I assume this was an EFI install.

MrChromebox commented 3 years ago

yes, this was an EFI install. Installer created a ~4GB FAT32 partition (recovery?) in addition to the EFS partition, along with a ~4GB swap partition, leaving only ~6.3GB for the OS

mmstick commented 3 years ago

Yeah, we can do without swap as well. Anyone needing swap can create a swapfile