Bug#757165: installation-reports: jessie on Acer C710: guided partitioning creates too small root partition
Package: installation-reports
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
the installation was successful (great job!), I used LVM with encryption (I
performed an installation on a different machine from the same USB stick
with LVM and no encryption with the same result) and separate partitions for
root, home, usr, var, tmp, and swap. I upgraded the chromebook with a 120GB
SSD. With automatic partitioning the root partition is just a little over
300MB, which is fine for the installation, but this prevents me from
installing a second kernel image, since the current kernels have modules in
/lib (which is on the root partition) that use more than 130MB of space, and
my root partition only has 90MB free after the installation. While 300MB
seem to be ok for the /boot partition for several kernels and initrds, it is
not sufficient for the root partition for the modules from a second or
upgraded linux-image as distributed by Debian.
-- Package-specific info:
Boot method: USB stick
Image version: Debian GNU/Linux testing _Jessie_ - Official Snapshot amd64 xfce-CD Binary-1 20140721-06:34
Date: Jul 29 2014 12:10
Machine: Acer C710 with Seabios
Partitions:
Filesystem Type 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/bunny--vg-root ext4 321041 209226 90721 70% /
udev devtmpfs 10240 0 10240 0% /dev
tmpfs tmpfs 385184 29844 355340 8% /run
tmpfs tmpfs 962960 0 962960 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs tmpfs 962960 0 962960 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs tmpfs 102400 8 102392 1% /run/user
tmpfs tmpfs 5120 4 5116 1% /run/lock
/dev/mapper/bunny--vg-usr ext4 8516872 3642892 4418300 46% /usr
/dev/mapper/bunny--vg-var ext4 2817056 766080 1888160 29% /var
/dev/sda1 ext2 240972 30143 198388 14% /boot
/dev/mapper/bunny--vg-home ext4 104522944 240112 98950252 1% /home
/dev/mapper/bunny--vg-tmp ext4 368615 2441 342622 1% /tmp
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot: [O]
Detect network card: [O]
Configure network: [O]
Detect CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Clock/timezone setup: [O]
User/password setup: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [O]
Install base system: [O]
Install tasks: [O]
Install boot loader: [O]
Overall install: [O]
Comments/Problems:
I would prefer to have at least 1GB for the root partition, but the
automatic partitioner does not let me increase the size. Also I would
prefer if LVM would not assign the whole diskspace, I would like to leave
some space empty (SSD overprovisioning?) and I think it is easier to grow a
too small partition than shrinking a too big partition. When increase the
RAM in this machine, I am afraid suspend/hibernation will not work anymore
since the swap partition will then be smaller than the RAM size, so it would
also be helpful to allow the user to pick a larger swap partition, or leave
some disk space unused. I don't think the home partition needs to use all
of the remaining space, it could start out much smaller. On the second
machine that I installed from scratch, I redid the partitioning manually
(after painfully deleting all partitions and volume groups by hand) and gave
1GB to the root partition. I could upgrade to the new 3.14-2 linux-image
and the root partition is only used by 45%.
Christian
--
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Installer lsb-release:
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DISTRIB_ID=Debian
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Debian GNU/Linux installer"
DISTRIB_RELEASE="8 (jessie) - installer build 20140721-00:03"
X_INSTALLATION_MEDIUM=cdrom
df: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
df: none 192592 104 192488 0% /run
df: devtmpfs 949572 0 949572 0% /dev
df: /dev/mapper/bunny--vg-root
df: 321041 201778 98169 67% /target
df: /dev/sda1 240972 29049 199482 13% /target/boot
df: /dev/mapper/bunny--vg-home
df: 104522944 61072 99129292 0% /target/home
df: /dev/mapper/bunny--vg-tmp
df: 368615 2065 342998 1% /target/tmp
df: /dev/mapper/bunny--vg-usr
df: 8516872 2416516 5644676 30% /target/usr
df: /dev/mapper/bunny--vg-var
df: 2817056 161624 2492616 6% /target/var
df: /dev/mapper/bunny--vg-root
df: 321041 201778 98169 67% /dev/.static/dev
df: devtmpfs 949572 0 949572 0% /target/dev
free: total used free shared buffers
free: Mem: 1925908 1465064 460844 0 123772
free: -/+ buffers: 1341292 584616
free: Swap: 4059132 88 4059044
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers testing-updates
APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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