[opensuse] 11.1 LVM installer chooses ridiculously small logical volumes
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? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry: Have classroom, will lecture. http://crashcourse.ca Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA ======================================================================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sat, 20 Dec 2008, Amedee Van Gasse wrote:
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.
argh, sorry, that was a stupid typo on my part, it should have read that "/" is selected to be 5.71G, not "/root". rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry: Have classroom, will lecture. http://crashcourse.ca Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA ======================================================================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sat, 20 Dec 2008, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
On Sat, 20 Dec 2008, Amedee Van Gasse wrote:
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.
argh, sorry, that was a stupid typo on my part, it should have read that "/" is selected to be 5.71G, not "/root".
to sum up (perhaps with more clarity), when i asked for the default LVM disk layout for 11.1, what i got was: /dev/sda 93.16GB /dev/sda1 70.60MB Ext3 /boot /dev/sda2 14.98GB Linux LVM in short, the install program clearly sees the disk size (93+ GB), it allocates what i accept as a sane size for a regular partition for /boot (70 MB), but the entire LVM is then shoehorned into less than 15 GB, which makes no sense since, AFAICT, this is going to fail badly when i try to pack lots of software on during the install process. sure, i can go into expert mode and adjust things, but it's the default settings that just seem to make no sense. is anyone else seeing this? (this is with an x86_64 install, if that makes any difference, but i'm guessing it doesn't.) rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry: Have classroom, will lecture. http://crashcourse.ca Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA ======================================================================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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