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'all' partition size is limited to 2TB #125

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following config:

DRIVE1 /dev/sda
HOSTNAME example.con
BOOTLOADER grub
PART / ext4 500G
PART swap swap 2G
PART /var ext4 all
IMAGE /root/.installimage/../images/Debian-84-jessie-64-minimal.tar.gz

Results in the following partition table:

# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 5.5 TiB, 6001118633984 bytes, 11720934832 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 00D76A0F-05AE-4951-845C-17533304102D

Device          Start        End    Sectors  Size Type
/dev/sda1        4096 1048580095 1048576000  500G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda2  1048580096 1052774399    4194304    2G Linux swap
/dev/sda3  1052774400 5345644543 4292870144    2T Linux filesystem
/dev/sda4        2048       4095       2048    1M BIOS boot

Partition table entries are not in disk order.

sda3 isn't using the whole disk. The beginning of the debuglog:

...
[14:10:27] # validating config ...
[14:10:28] :   / : 512000
[14:10:28] :   swap : 2048
[14:10:28] :   /var : all
[14:10:29] :   Size of the first hdd is: 6001118633984
[14:10:29] :   check_dos_partitions
[14:10:40] # executing installfile ...
[14:10:41] :   / : 512000
[14:10:41] :   swap : 2048
[14:10:41] :   /var : all
[14:10:41] :   check_dos_partitions
[14:10:41] :   DRIVE size is: 5723112
[14:10:41] :   partitions without "all" sum up to 514048
[14:10:41] :   primary partitions without "all" sum up to 514048
[14:10:41] :   new size of "all" is now 2096128
...

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