On Sun, Aug 4, 2024 at 6:24 PM David Uhden Collado <da...@uhden.dev> wrote:
> I would like to understand the rationale behind this design choice. Is > there a specific reason why the automatic partitioning is limited to > around 350GB for system partitions? Any insights or explanations you can > provide would be greatly appreciated. > The rationale is that the installer is not able to make a reasonable guess about how you plan to use the system. It knows the minimum required filesystem sizes, and if you have a moderate amount of extra disk it has rules on how to allocate the extra. But if you have an extremely large amount of extra space there's no way to tell what you have planned for it. Are you going to run a database? Maybe the extra space should go into /var. Or better yet, use that extra space to make a new filesystem like /var/mariadb or /var/postgresql. Or maybe you are setting up a web server and you'll want /var/www enlarged. Maybe you will want the extra space in an entirely new directory like /nfs. If the installer can't reasonably guess, it is better to leave the space unused as it's easy to add space somewhere if you have extra, but hard if you don't. The idea here is to start with sane defaults, not immediately paint you into a corner. -ken
