Bug#268202: partman-auto: multi-user and similar recipes should choose a bigger size for / with big disks
Package: partman-auto
Severity: important
Tags: d-i
On a system with a 80GB hard disk, the chosen size for the root partition
when using the multi-user recipe was 150MB.
This system was installed with the "Desktop" tasks and I later tried to add
a neweer kernel-package to the existing 2.4.26 kernel-image.
THis failed because of full / partition.
Removing All gnome stuff partly solved this (/etc/gconf may grow to a huge
size....it was 20MB big on my system).
However, I suggest to increase the size of the root partition when the disk
or available space size allow this. This will allow users with default
installs to install more than 1 kernel image.....
I tagged this "important" because, in a context of a moderately skilled
Debian user, this may appear to be a bad design choice....
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-1-686
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (ignored: LC_ALL set to fr_FR.UTF-8)
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