Imaging Failure

In my quest to migrate work systems from Ubuntu to Debian, I began testing the imaging system. The imaging is basically two partitions on a workstation and two shell-scripts. The two partitions are /boot and the system (/) partition.

The prep script kept failing when copying the /boot partition. Each time the script attempted to run fsck the command would fail with related super block messages.

I was testing the imaging process on Slackware 14.2. The /boot partition size is configured to 250 MB. This has worked fine through many images. Eventually I found that changing the new partition size to 256 MB resolved the problem.

Updating my local testing system to 256 MB was straightforward, but why the failure?

I don’t know. Yet Another Shoulder Shrug moment.

Posted: February 23, 2020 Category: Usability Tagged: Debian

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