Re: Bug#652275: Guided partitioning should not offer separate /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions; leave that to manual partitioning

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 09:23:03AM +0000, Philip Hands wrote:
> 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.

My preferred solution (on the grounds that I've already implemented it)
would be:

  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=515607

There was some contention about it, though, and it's awkward to revisit
given Frans' passing.  Maybe we could resurrect this if other people
would like to express clear ideas about what the semantics should be.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]