F13 a4 x86_64 netinst - default partitioning, default set of software

James Laska jlaska at redhat.com
Mon Mar 1 14:38:49 UTC 2010


On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 15:22 +0100, Karel Volný wrote:
> hi,
> 
> this weekend I've tried to install F13 for a virtualised server
> 
> I had some troubles to figure out how to use public IP address 
> from within the virtual machine, but after that the installation 
> went smoothly, and the result seems ok - well, mostly :)
> 
> two things:
> 
> 1) on the software selection screen, I have unchecked desktop and 
> selected server ... but still I got the full GNOME desktop 
> installed (not to mention all the i18n/IM and such stuff) - not 
> exactly what you'd use for serving web pages and VCS repositories 
> :-)
> (well, I didn't do manual package selection, just the generic 
> groups)

What shows up in %packages in your /root/anaconda-ks.cfg file?

> 2) the default partitioning scheme seems a bit strange to me ...
> 
> I've used 100 GiB virtual disk, which got divided into two 
> partitions - 499 MB /boot and the rest LVM
> 
> the LVM partition was divided into 2 GB swap, 50 GB root and 49 
> GB /home
> 
> I can't see what scenario does this division fit - for a desktop 
> user, I bet a lot of space in /home would be preferred to store 
> all the multimedia and such stuff
> 
> - for a server, a lot of space in /var (i.e. under root) would be 
> preferred to store all the stuff for www (/var/www), lots of 
> intrusion attempts, err I mean access, logs (/var/log) etc.
> 
> but the installer can hardly tell what is preferred ... why to 
> choose a "solution" that is only half-good = half-bad in both 
> cases?
> 
> ... I bet there must have been a lot of discussion about going 
> with just root versus separate /home, and how much space to 
> allocate, could someone point me to some summary why such a 
> solution was chosen?
> 
> this is no big deal, as it is easy to make custom partition 
> scheme, I'm just curious - the default simply does seem a good 
> compromise to me, it does not fit the most common scenario (I bet 
> most people use Fedora on desktop?), why not to make it better, 
> is there a reason why to do it this way that stays hidden for me?

Unfortunately, I don't think the default partitioning scheme will ever
work for everyone.

Thanks,
James
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