Bug#969450: partman-auto: on a machine with 384 Gb Ram and 512 Gb SSD, creates 400 Gb swap partition
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.
After re-installing, this seems a lot saner:
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 377Gi 842Mi 219Gi 9.0Mi 157Gi 374Gi
Swap: 44Gi 0B 44Gi
Debian Release: 10.5
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-10-amd64 (SMP w/24 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
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