On Tue, 2013-07-30 at 23:20 +0200, Zoltan Hoppar wrote: > Hi, > > I have made a testing with anaconda installer, and I would like to > know why sets for root as fixed size to 50 gigs as default every time, > when it's not used out completely even when you are the hardest coder? > I tried it to take it in extreme way - I have installed tons of > desktops, devel environments, and 50 gigs was really enough for > everything, but df in root hasn't gone wild, and max was 45% from 50 > gigs. Yep. Not even the half of the root is in use. > > Somewhere I have red also that mechanism not perfect, because it uses > 50 gigs as a limit, and under it unifies the root and home - what is > nice, just you are doomed when you have a old eg. 60 gigs HDD. Because > in this case, no matter what, in automated install will cut down 50 > gigs, and 10 gigs for home?? > It is not as simple as: 1. grow root to its limit 2. use the rest for home It is more like: Grow root and home together, growing root at twice the rate you grow home, but only grow root up to a maximum of 50GB. Perhaps you should try some automated installs with virtual disks of varying sizes so you can get a better sense of what the default layout looks like in various situations. > So, my question is wouldn't be easier to use a proportion method? I > mean percentage in relation of full free disk size? We do use a proportion method. > > Thanks, > > Zoltan > _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
