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Bug#757316: whole disk one big partition is a bad default



積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> writes:

> 1% would be fine...
> Else one day when they e.g., want to upgrade from ext4 to ext5 etc. and face
> http://www.debian-administration.org/article/643/Migrating_a_live_system_from_ext3_to_ext4_filesystem
> and end up with Kernel panic – not syncing Attempted to kill init when
> something goes wrong.
>
> All because they had no more room to copy /sbin etc.

Just as a suggestion to anyone coming after (lamenting that they have a
fully partitioned disk and so are stuck in the situation you describe:

  There is always the option to shrink swap, or run the upgrade without
  swap, and use some or all of the swap partition as scratch space for
  the duration of the operation.

There's no need to leave some of the disk fallow to deal with such an
eventuality, especially when the users that this default is aimed at
will most likely not discover the reserved space anyway.

Cheers, Phil.
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