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Bug#969450: partman-auto: on a machine with 384 Gb Ram and 512 Gb SSD, creates 400 Gb swap partition



Control: severity -1 minor

On Thu, 2020-09-03 at 08:43 +0200, jurriaan wrote:
> Package: partman-auto
> Severity: important
> Tags: d-i
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> I was a bit surprised when I did a quick Debian Stable install on my
> new workstation (384 Gb RAM, 512 Gb ssd) and ended up with just 80 Gb
> usable diskspace, thanks to a 400 Gb swap partition that the Debian
> installer created. I think a warning/question when more than 25% of
> the disk is used as swap-space would be in order. I would think that
> computer-owners who install large amounts of memory carefully install
> enough memory to not swap excessively.
[...]

This is an extremely unusual configuration for a desktop.  You always
have the opportunity to review and modify the partitioning before going
ahead.  So reducing the severity.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Time is nature's way of making sure that
everything doesn't happen at once.


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