On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:47:52 +0800, Thomas Goirand <thomas@goirand.fr> wrote: > On 12/22/2011 02:42 AM, Josh Triplett wrote: > > People expect that they can use all the capacity of their disk without > > having to take unusual steps like resizing partitions and filesystems. > > After installing Debian on a 1TB drive, "df -h" should say that you have > > just under 1TB of free space, not just a handful of GB. > > > > Please define "people". I don't consider myself included, and I know > many who wouldn't either. I'm *tired* of reading the assumptions that > Debian users should be considered dumb ass with zero knowledge by > default, when I have the strong feeling it's quite the opposite. So please > do not make such generalities and assumptions without any check. Did > you actually do a poll to check if they were expecting that? What > numbers to you have to back it up? > > Also, if "people" don't know, why can't they learn? +1 Before I set up a preseed to work round it, I was constantly annoyed by the assumption that mult-partition + LVM would allocate almost the whole of the disk to /home -- what use it that to anyone? Not only that, but the multi-terabyte filesystem that you're then going to have to remove before you get to take any advantage of LVM takes _ages_ to create. I'd say that 2GB is a reasonable starting point for /home on LVM, and is small enough that people will notice instantly that most of their disk is missing -- we could always mention it in the install guide after all. ;-) The only reason I've never mentioned it in public before is that I know I that should be fixing it rather than complaining about it, and I feel guilty that I've done no work on d-i for ages. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] http://www.hands.com/ |-| HANDS.COM Ltd. http://www.uk.debian.org/ |(| 10 Onslow Gardens, South Woodford, London E18 1NE ENGLAND
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