Default partitioning

[David Cantrell]

On Sat, 30 Oct 2010, Matt McCutchen wrote:

> On Sat, 2010-10-30 at 14:03 -0800, Javier Prats wrote:
>> Where is this info kept on the install image and how would I go about
>> modifying it locally to start playing?  I'd like to learn whether some
>> one else does this or not.
>
> It's in anaconda.  The / and /home specifications are here (line numbers
> may rot):
>
> http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=anaconda.git;a=blob;f=pyanaconda/installclass.py#l169
>
> The requiredSpace is checked here:
>
> http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=anaconda.git;a=blob;f=pyanaconda/storage/partitioning.py#l147
>
> You would have to modify the python files and then either rebuild
> anaconda or create an updates image.  See:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda
>
>

While the anaconda team would implement the technical aspects for this change,
I think there's also the distribution policy issue as well.  The amount to
reserve for /home as well as the algorithm for determining how much to
allocate for /home might as well be a Fedora distribution policy decision.

-- 
David Cantrell <dcantrell at redhat.com>
Red Hat / Honolulu, HI