Bug#652275: Guided partitioning should not offer separate /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions; leave that to manual partitioning

2011-12-21 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Steve Langasek writes: > On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 07:32:35PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: >> On 16.12.2011 18:38, Joey Hess wrote: >> > Christian PERRIER wrote: >> >> I'm inclined to follow this advice and would indeed propose that the >> >> "atomic" partman-auto recipe is kept, however without a s

Bug#652275: Guided partitioning should not offer separate /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions; leave that to manual partitioning

2011-12-21 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Josselin Mouette writes: > Le samedi 17 décembre 2011 à 17:42 +0800, Thomas Goirand a écrit : >> I do recommend a separate /usr to anyone. It's *not* safe to say that, >> and I know many people that agree with me. To me, it has, and still is, >> the best choice. You have no rights to arbitrar

Bug#652275: Guided partitioning should not offer separate /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions; leave that to manual partitioning

2011-12-21 Thread Russell Coker
On Thu, 22 Dec 2011, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > PS: I myself like a seperate /usr but I wouldn't use it for my parents. > I do want a seperate /var and /home for them though so they can't DOS > the system by filling up their home. How would filling up /home DOS the system? The only common pro

Bug#652275: Guided partitioning should not offer separate /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions; leave that to manual partitioning

2011-12-21 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Russell Coker writes: > On Sun, 18 Dec 2011, Josselin Mouette wrote: >> > Doing this has many advantage. Like, if your laptop has to unexpectedly >> > reboot (like when you inadvertently removed power cord when batteries >> > were not plugged, which happens often in real life), having separated

Bug#652275: Guided partitioning should not offer separate /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions; leave that to manual partitioning

2011-12-21 Thread Russell Coker
On Thu, 22 Dec 2011, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Also / and /usr can be read-only and definetly should be on a systems > likely to have power outages like laptops. And with a read-only > partition you have neither fsck nor journal replay. You don't have a fsck if the time/count for a fsck hasn'

Bug#652946: live-installer does not install /var/spool and breaks crontab

2011-12-21 Thread Rui Miguel P. Bernardo
Package: live-installer Version: 34 Severity: normal Hello, after building a live image with live-build using the "daily" wheezy/sid installer and installed the image to disk crontab and postfix failed to start (this is a debian wheezy/testing image). The problem was a missing /var/spool direc