Bug#1076952: [RFD] partman-auto: Update guided partitioning size limits for current and future needs

2024-08-18 Thread Pascal Hambourg
On 18/08/2024 at 23:46, Pascal Hambourg wrote: The /boot partition size is bigger than I expected in all LVM cases, and I understand why. My previous calculations compensated the LVM PV priority used by partman-auto-lvm but not the minimum size (100MB) which is considerably smaller than the a

Bug#1076952: [RFD] partman-auto: Update guided partitioning size limits for current and future needs

2024-08-18 Thread Holger Wansing
Am 18. August 2024 21:50:53 MESZ schrieb Pascal Hambourg : > >> 2. >> I wonder, if we could grow up the root partition in "separate /home" and >> "separate /home, /var, /tmp" a bit (only relevant on small disks, most >> probably). > >By raising the minimal / partition size or its priority ? >T

Bug#1076952: [RFD] partman-auto: Update guided partitioning size limits for current and future needs

2024-08-18 Thread Pascal Hambourg
On 18/08/2024 at 16:38, Holger Wansing wrote: I have uploaded some screenshots from tests with different disk sizes to https://people.debian.org/~holgerw/partman-auto___new-limits/ Thank you. The /boot partition size is bigger than I expected in all LVM cases, and I understand why. My previou

Bug#1076952: [RFD] partman-auto: Update guided partitioning size limits for current and future needs

2024-08-18 Thread Pascal Hambourg
On 18/08/2024 à 16:00, Philip Hands wrote: If the disk they're installing onto is huge, then having the upper limit for /boot be 0.5GB larger will go unnoticed, whereas running out of space on /boot is generally pretty annoying, or worse. How huge ? I do not mind raising the maximal /boot size

Bug#1076952: [RFD] partman-auto: Update guided partitioning size limits for current and future needs

2024-08-18 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Holger Wansing wrote (Sun, 18 Aug 2024 17:55:03 +0200): > Am 18. August 2024 16:38:30 MESZ schrieb Holger Wansing > : > > > >1. > >I'm unable to produce swap partition bigger than 1G, even in a qemu VM with > >2G or 4G of RAM > >('cat /proc/meminfo' has "MemTotal = 2021952 kB" for example,

Bug#1076952: [RFD] partman-auto: Update guided partitioning size limits for current and future needs

2024-08-18 Thread Holger Wansing
Am 18. August 2024 16:38:30 MESZ schrieb Holger Wansing : > >1. >I'm unable to produce swap partition bigger than 1G, even in a qemu VM with >2G or 4G of RAM >('cat /proc/meminfo' has "MemTotal = 2021952 kB" for example, when I start >qemu >with '-m 2048M', so I assume everything is fine with

Bug#1076952: [RFD] partman-auto: Update guided partitioning size limits for current and future needs

2024-08-18 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Pascal Hambourg wrote (Sun, 18 Aug 2024 12:33:50 +0200): > > > I also attached the recipe files to this mail. > I have not tested them at all yet. Many thanks for this! (I can better go testing and look at the resul

Bug#1076952: [RFD] partman-auto: Update guided partitioning size limits for current and future needs

2024-08-18 Thread Philip Hands
[Sorry about the slow reply -- school holidays are making me afk a lot.] Holger Wansing writes: > Hi, > > Am 9. August 2024 22:08:09 MESZ schrieb Pascal Hambourg > : >>On 09/08/2024 at 17:05, Philip Hands wrote: >> >>> I tend to install servers with something like the multi recipe, except >>> i

Bug#1076952: [RFD] partman-auto: Update guided partitioning size limits for current and future needs

2024-08-18 Thread Pascal Hambourg
On 17/08/2024 at 15:56, Pascal Hambourg wrote: On 17/08/2024 at 12:30, Holger Wansing wrote: Pascal, would you be able to form the proposed changes as they are currently into code for a patch or a merge request, maybe for amd64 only, for now? The details would be mostly as you stated in your fi