Re: Finalizing debian-cd for potato

[Ilkka Tuohela <hile@nixu.fi>]

> I've just commited some changes to the CVS. The second i386 is bootable
> again with the "compact" image (kernel with less things compiled in).

After reading this (don't know why) I had to ask...

Could it be possible to make debian installer automatically do something 
like

tune2fs -L ${MOUNTPOINT}_fs $filesystem

when making new filesystems? It's really much more useful to see fcsk
checking home_fs that /dev/hda8... I just always run tune2fs for each
filesystem I use after install... maybe setting reserved blocks were 
nice too, because having 20GB with default 5% reserved blocks count for 
id 0, mounted to /home isn't really clever.

For example making reserved blocks count to
  2048 for root (just to be sure...)
  0 for /usr (users don't write there anyway)
  n for /var (depends, should be probably asked)
  0 for /home (well, this IS user's space, isn't it?)

these numbers of course only if you have all these different partitions:
default 5% is nice if you install to single partition. Maybe we need some
logic.

Hmmm, asking for reserved blocks count during install could be nice
('would you like to change default %5 value for reserved blocks count
  for partitions created?'): ask once if wanted, ask after that for each
partition created. 

That's just one idea. I don't know if it's _good_ idea but methinks it is.

I know, busybox doesn't currently have tune2fs so this really isn't potato
issue. Maybe later.

There really were something more important to do for potato like making every
package debconf-aware. I really try to contribute but have so little time...

(probably you haven't ever heard of me before: well, I'm one of these finnish
 wannabe developers, only have so much work to do that there isn't time for 
 debian. Shit.)

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