Hi Pritam Khedekar! On 2014.09.17 at 19:25:08 +0530, Pritam Khedekar wrote next:
> It is not recommended to perform default installation. you may use > kick-start to perform the desired installation or use custom layout. The > default partitioning is depending upon how much space you are having to > install SL7/Centos7/RHEL7 distros. Please see developers DOCs. > > Default installation is only for testing purpose. It is NOT recommended in > production environment. I know what you mean, but this world doesn't work exactly as people hope it should :) (for me, it was just a test installation to get familiar with what to expect from the new installer - I will be reinstalling it anyway before production). Many times I've encountered random EL systems (mostly centos) installed completely "by default" for some simple purpose in some organization without proper system administrator caring over it, and these systems "worked" somehow but then requirements changed and someone needed extra space in some partition and found out that all space was allocated.. It could be solved by resizing partition before. In EL7, the only way to get free space is to remove /home. Having senseless defaults and writing in documentation "it's only for testing purpose!" is always a bad idea because some people are always going to ignore the documentation. Now, Red Hat probably doesn't care about such cases because people who are doing such installations don't plan to buy it and people who do buy it will do manual partitioning anyway. But, like I said, it's something to keep in mind. That changing partition scheme after automatic installation might be more complicated in EL7 compared to EL6 (or sometimes easier, if done right after installation, because removing empty /home is easier than resizing /). -- Vladimir
