On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 14:46:10 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > [Please CC me, I'm not subscribed] > > Hi, > > my son and me independently installed two boxes with the recent Wheezy > beta installer. Everything went smooth so far - thanks for your fine > work. > > However, I might like to question the choice of the automatically > suggested size for the root partition (when always just pressing > <Enter>). We both ended up with something that easily fills up for some > kind of "not very specific" installation. I do not have direct access > to his box but mine looks like > > > $ LANG=C df -h | grep rootfs > rootfs 331M 307M 7.5M 98% / > > > after installing the set of packages I used on the box before. IMHO > the dir > > $ LANG=C du -hs /lib/modules > 200M /lib/modules > > is responsible for the problem because by doing simple > > apt-get dist-upgrade > > you can end up with some kernel package installed in parallel and an > unexperienced user hardly will easily cope with the problem if its third > kernel package will not simply install any more. > > Sorry if this was just reported, I'm not reading this list. If not I > can easily turn this into a bug report in case you agree that this is a > problem that should be dealt with. > Please make a proper installation report including the log from your install. There's just no way to fix anything with the info you provided. Cheers, Julien
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