Bug#929322: partman-auto: Should increase size of / in multi and home recipes
Package: partman-auto
Version: 148
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
User: devel@kali.org
Usertags: origin-kali
The size of the root partition has not been reevaluated since 2014 but the
size of typical installations has grown in the mean time. When you install
a Debian system with many packages (such as in many live images) and when
you select a recipe with multiple partitions, you might find that / is too
small to contain all the applications/data.
We have this problem in Kali where our standard installation is about
8Gb. And nowadays a typical desktop dist-upgrade will require 2 Gb in
/var too.
Thus I'm suggesting to increase the size both of the root partition and of
the /var partition.
Please find attached a suggested patch which increases / to 12Gb in all
recipes and /var to 2.5Gb in the multi recipe.
The net result is that the multi and home recipes will not be proposed
when you have disks smaller than 18Gb roughly which sounds about right.
Anyone who wants multiple partitions on disks smaller than that should do
it manually based on their own analysis.
Let me know if you are happy with this change and I can commit it (after
the buster release I assume). This patch is in use in Kali.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
--
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--- a/recipes-amd64-efi/home
+++ b/recipes-amd64-efi/home
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ partman-auto/text/home_scheme ::
filesystem{ ext2 }
mountpoint{ /boot } .
-1500 6000 30000 $default_filesystem
+12000 6000 30000 $default_filesystem
$lvmok{ }
method{ format }
format{ }
diff --git a/recipes-amd64-efi/multi b/recipes-amd64-efi/multi
index 78639ed..3b74b0a 100644
--- a/recipes-amd64-efi/multi
+++ b/recipes-amd64-efi/multi
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ partman-auto/text/multi_scheme ::
filesystem{ ext2 }
mountpoint{ /boot } .
-2000 3500 25000 $default_filesystem
+12000 3500 25000 $default_filesystem
$lvmok{ }
method{ format }
format{ }
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ partman-auto/text/multi_scheme ::
$default_filesystem{ }
mountpoint{ / } .
-1000 1500 10000 $default_filesystem
+2500 1500 10000 $default_filesystem
$lvmok{ }
method{ format }
format{ }
diff --git a/recipes-armhf/home b/recipes-armhf/home
index 9362612..9a69ff2 100644
--- a/recipes-armhf/home
+++ b/recipes-armhf/home
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ partman-auto/text/home_scheme ::
filesystem{ ext2 }
mountpoint{ /boot } .
-1500 6000 20000 $default_filesystem
+12000 6000 20000 $default_filesystem
$lvmok{ }
$primary{ }
method{ format }
diff --git a/recipes-armhf/multi b/recipes-armhf/multi
index 690676a..9f58371 100644
--- a/recipes-armhf/multi
+++ b/recipes-armhf/multi
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ partman-auto/text/multi_scheme ::
filesystem{ ext2 }
mountpoint{ /boot } .
-2000 3500 25000 $default_filesystem
+12000 3500 25000 $default_filesystem
$lvmok{ }
$primary{ }
method{ format }
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ partman-auto/text/multi_scheme ::
$default_filesystem{ }
mountpoint{ / } .
-1000 1500 10000 $default_filesystem
+2500 1500 10000 $default_filesystem
$lvmok{ }
method{ format }
format{ }
diff --git a/recipes/home b/recipes/home
index 6abd95f..2603759 100644
--- a/recipes/home
+++ b/recipes/home
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ partman-auto/text/home_scheme ::
filesystem{ ext2 }
mountpoint{ /boot } .
-1500 6000 30000 $default_filesystem
+12000 6000 30000 $default_filesystem
$lvmok{ }
method{ format }
format{ }
diff --git a/recipes/multi b/recipes/multi
index b7b7f55..5e2ea3c 100644
--- a/recipes/multi
+++ b/recipes/multi
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ partman-auto/text/multi_scheme ::
filesystem{ ext2 }
mountpoint{ /boot } .
-2000 3500 25000 $default_filesystem
+12000 3500 25000 $default_filesystem
$lvmok{ }
method{ format }
format{ }
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ partman-auto/text/multi_scheme ::
$default_filesystem{ }
mountpoint{ / } .
-1000 1500 10000 $default_filesystem
+2500 1500 10000 $default_filesystem
$lvmok{ }
method{ format }
format{ }
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