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["Amedee Van Gasse" <amedee@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, December 20, 2008 18:19, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   first time oS user, so take this for what it's worth.  installing oS
> 11.1 on a gateway laptop with a 90G HD, select LVM install and what i
> get is the alleged default:
>
>   /home               8.57G
>   /root               5.71G
>   swap                712M
>
> why so small?  there's another 75G of HD out there, and the selection
> above causes problems during the SW selection since i want to load up
> this system and, before i'm even finished selecting the software, i'm
> told i'm almost out of space in /root.
>
>   sure, i know enough LVM to go in and customize this, but the above
> seems like a disastrously bad choice of default logical volumes, given
> how much disk is being left unallocated.  is there some kind of
> rationale to this?

You did not mention the size of /
What size does the installer suggest?
/root seems unreasonably large. Since I (almost) never work as root, I
hardly have any files in there so it's never bigger than a couple of
kilobytes. I never use a separate partition for /root anyway.

-- 
Amedee

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