Joe Smith wrote:
Jesse Keating wrote:
On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 11:15 -0400, Joe Smith wrote:
A root fs needing >300Mb of disk space still makes no sense to me.
If you're going to play silly games with tiny filesystems, make sure
things like /var(/cache) are suitably big enough ...
First, I agree, it is silly; 300M is 0.1% of the disk space. But I'm an
old fart and old habits die hard. And new tricks take time to learn. I
like to have real honest-to-god partitions that I know how to deal with,
and not put all the eggs in some LVM black basket that I can't
troubleshoot. Yes, I know it's silly.
Second, I do know enough to deal with /var/cache -- that's one reason
/var is on a separate partition. My / fs is pushing 300G with no package
downloads. The killers are /etc (?!?) and /lib.
It really would be nice if the "Custom filesystem layout" screens in
Anaconda had some rough size recommendations for us old farts who prefer
a "traditional" disk layout.
# du -s -x bin dev etc lib lib64 misc root sbin selinux | sort -rn
177843 lib
132263 etc
26021 lib64
21180 sbin
6373 bin
271 root
96 dev
0 selinux
0 misc
Sorry, that's 360M used out of 400M I partitioned (388M usable).
As someone who micromanages my partitioning as well...
I think this is good material for the release notes and user's guide, but poor
material for the actual partitioning UI. This is highly dependent on how many
packages are installed, and it will vary (by a big margin) depending on
architecture, install source (live cd vs dvd, alternate spins), etc. Also, what
should the UI do when you have not separated /var from /? Should its behavior
be to show you the estimated sum of their sizes? Which top level directories
are supported for this then (/var, /lib, /usr, /etc)?
I think it would be non-trivial to make this work well, and its data that just
does not exist until the spin is nearly complete, meaning it has to be generated
by rel-engineering during the release freeze (or just be grossly exaggerated
guesses, which don't really help that much do they?). Release notes seem like
the right place to suggest disk space requirements.
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