Bug#893108: debian-edu-install: please do not force complex partitioning scheme

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

[Wolfgang Schweer]
>> I propose compeltely dropping Edu's own partitioning scheme and simply
>> using the corresponding step from the Debian installer, or defaulting to
>> jsut one partition or at most three (root, home and backup).
>
> IMO this change would reduce the existing flexibility to rather simple 
> use cases.

With one partition, a user will be able to kill system services that are
unable to cope with a full /var/.  And that is the case for quite a lot
of services.  I strongly recommend against the 'just one partition'
idea.

Users are able to write to /tmp/ and /var/tmp/, and can easily fill up
those partitions too.  I came up with the current partition scheme used
in Debian Edu based on the scheme used at the university of Oslo for 30
years, to ensure good reliability for system services while keeping theq
flexibility provided by LVM.  It is not really 'complex', and the
debian-edu-fsautoresize tool allow easy adjustment for partition sizes
when needed.

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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen