Control: reassign -1 partman-auto Control: retitle -1 Automatic partitioning requires more flexibility On 19/04/2026 at 20:29, Lodi wrote:
AFAICS on a 1TB disk the space allocated to the root partition/volume is about 60GB (~5%), not 30.During installation I generally advise people to use automatic partitioning using lvm with encryption. The issue is with the defailt size allocation for the / partition when asking for separate /home or separate /home, /tmp and /var partitions. On a 1 terrabyte disk it allocates 30 GB for root. This is very small for a desktop.
IME even 30GB is more than enough in many desktop use cases. My own root filesystem (including /var) uses less than 10GB. However on smaller disk sizes such as 250GB, it has been reported that the root filesystem may be too small in some use cases, so one may consider raising the root filesystem priority in partman-auto "home" and "multi" recipes a bit.
It would be helpful to either have a distinction before selecting a disk, ie "server" and "desktop"
This distinction already exists: guided partitioning offers a "server" recipe, which allocates most disk space to /srv instead of /home. But the space allocated to / is about the same as in "home" and "multi".
or the posibility to change the default distrubtion between the different volumes in the vg.
Guided partitioning with LVM gives the option to reserve some free space in the VG for future allocation. You can use this space to grow logical volumes as needed.