Standard automated install problems?

[Zoltan Hoppar]

Hi,

I have made a testing with anaconda installer, and I would like to
know why sets for root as fixed size to 50 gigs as default every time,
when it's not used out completely even when you are the hardest coder?
I tried it to take it in extreme way - I have installed tons of
desktops, devel environments, and 50 gigs was really enough for
everything, but df in root hasn't gone wild, and max was 45% from 50
gigs. Yep. Not even the half of the root is in use.

Somewhere I have red also that mechanism not perfect, because it uses
50 gigs as a limit, and under it unifies the root and home - what is
nice, just you are doomed when you have a old eg. 60 gigs HDD. Because
in this case, no matter what, in automated install will cut down 50
gigs, and 10 gigs for home??

So, my question is wouldn't be easier to use a proportion method? I
mean percentage in relation of full free disk size?

Thanks,

Zoltan

[David Lehman]

On Tue, 2013-07-30 at 23:20 +0200, Zoltan Hoppar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have made a testing with anaconda installer, and I would like to
> know why sets for root as fixed size to 50 gigs as default every time,
> when it's not used out completely even when you are the hardest coder?
> I tried it to take it in extreme way - I have installed tons of
> desktops, devel environments, and 50 gigs was really enough for
> everything, but df in root hasn't gone wild, and max was 45% from 50
> gigs. Yep. Not even the half of the root is in use.
>
> Somewhere I have red also that mechanism not perfect, because it uses
> 50 gigs as a limit, and under it unifies the root and home - what is
> nice, just you are doomed when you have a old eg. 60 gigs HDD. Because
> in this case, no matter what, in automated install will cut down 50
> gigs, and 10 gigs for home??

It is not as simple as:

1. grow root to its limit
 2. use the rest for home

It is more like:

Grow root and home together, growing root at twice the rate
 you grow home, but only grow root up to a maximum of 50GB.

Perhaps you should try some automated installs with virtual disks of
varying sizes so you can get a better sense of what the default layout
looks like in various situations.
> So, my question is wouldn't be easier to use a proportion method? I
> mean percentage in relation of full free disk size?

We do use a proportion method.
> Thanks,
>
> Zoltan