On Mar 2, 2014, at 9:35 PM, Nathanael Noblet <nathan...@gnat.ca> wrote:
> On 03/01/2014 04:57 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> The servers were rented with a Fedora produced default/automatic/guided >> partitioning layout? If not, your example is out of scope. We are only >> talking about this context specifically, not arbitrary examples for >> shrinking a file system. The Fedora automatic/guided partition layout is a >> rootfs of 50GB, and any significant additional space goes to a separate >> /home. So you're saying you'd shrink a 50GB rootfs for encrypted data, >> rather than blow away the /home LV, make a new LV, encrypt it, then format >> it? > > They were CentOS 6 machines. So perhaps the defaults are different however > this is something that happened to me and not being able to shrink a fs would > have been problematic / costly for me. Granted the default there was /boot / > and swap so I had a 900G / and nothing else thus the shrinking of the / fs. > So I suppose that if the servers were fedora and had a /home LV this > particular situation wouldn't have been an issue. > > I just wanted to point out that shrinking a partition is a valid use case is > all. In our current default fedora layout I could still accomplish what I > needed. But shrinking a fs is a valid use case… Fair enough, and I'm not suggesting shrink is invalid for that matter. I merely want to understand the actual requirement because there may be better ways to address it. > > Given the XFS shrinking issue it might even be nice to not allocate ALL > storage, create /, swap and /home without taking up all storage and then let > people enlarge what they need… It's an interesting suggestion. But does this really apply to the target audience of users who are a.) using a GUI installer, and b.) choosing to use an automatic/guided partitioning layout? Is that sort of user likely to jump into a resize operation from the command line post-install? Why wouldn't they just use Manual Partitioning? What you suggest might seem plausible for Server. But I don't think that's a good idea for Workstation, to burden the user with an incomplete partition layout that (silently) proposes they complete or customize it post-install. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
