After struggling a bit recently with the partition sizes in Debian Edu and file systems being filled, I realised that there is no need for us to worry about this. We already have all the mechanism in place to avoid it. This is now implemented in debian-edu-install in lenny-test.
The idea is simply that the unused LVM space can be released before the packages are installed, and then used to extend the file systems that fill up during package installation. We used to release the unused LVM space at the end of the installation (in finish-install), but it can just as well be done just after partitions are created (in base-installer). Because of this, I have moved that code into base-installer to make the unused LVM space available earlier in the installation. For the resizing, it took a bit more work, but mostly because I do no longer remember all the d-i details any more. In the base-installer script, I start a loop in the background to check if debian-edu-fsautoresize is available, and call it every 10 second to see extend full partitions. It is stopped from finish-install, before /target/ is umounted. Give it a go. It seem to work, but I have not given it much testing so far. :) Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
