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Re: Partitioning schemes for partman-auto



Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> So far we have two usefull partitioning schemes.  Please review the
> numbers and the names of the schemes (the names will be shown to the
> users in a menu).
> 
> =================================================
> Name: All files in one partition (recommended for new users)
> 
>        Minimal Typical Maximal
> /      1000Mb  10Gb    9999Gb

I think more like 500 mb should do for minimal.

> swap   64Mb    512Mb   512Mb
> 
> =================================================
> Name: Separate home directories (future installations can preserve users data)

I think that the bit in parens here is too complicated. Users are
probably not thinking about future installations when installing Debian
and autopartitioning.

>        Minimal Typical Maximal
> /      300Mb   3Gb     7Gb
> /home  100Mb   10Gb    1000Gb
> swap   64Mb    400%    512Mb
> 
> =================================================
> 
> I was thinking also for a partitioning scheme that tries to follow the
> recommendations in "Securing Debian Manual", but as Falk Hueffner
> pointed, more advanced partitioning schemes are used by people who do
> this stuff manually.

There might be something to be said for just slapping on one large
partition or some other suitable generic scheme and not asking the user
for a scheme at all in high priority.

-- 
see shy jo

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