I've noticed, that / partition is too small on majority of disks these days -
I've did some tests with small (8 GB) and large (250 GB) drives, used "separate
home" partitioning scheme:
- with 8 GB drive installed created about 2,5 GB / partition, which is too
small these days for desktop systems (see bellow why);
- with 250 GB disk installer created less than 7 GB / partition and 3 GB swap
partition (computer has 1 GB of RAM). This is a nonsense - if user installs
Ubuntu desktop on 250 GB hard drive then / partition should be at least 12 or
16 GB size - several big games (like openarena or nexus) and lots of upgrades
will fill 7 GB pretty fast, especially when downloaded .deb files are leaved in
/var/cache/apt/archives/
Also swap partition shouldn't be 50% size of / partition and 3x bigger than
available RAM. It's always enough to have 2 GB swap partition for computers
with 1 GB RAM - your computer will be not responsible when you have 1 GB RAM
and running software will use 2 GB of swap.
** Also affects: partman-auto (Baltix)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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d-i partman-auto/choose_recipe home on small drive, root not big enough
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/198379
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