LVM server installs with maximum root partition size
Bug #160156 reported by
Ketil Malde
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| partman-auto-lvm (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
When I installed Gutsy from a server iso image, I chose LVM partitioning. I messed about a bit in the partition setup, but couldn't find a way to manually specify a set of LVM partitions to use, and thought I'd fix it later. Unfortunately, Ubuntu divided the entire disk into 1% swap, and 99% (187Gb) root. Since ext3 cannot be shrunk online, and / cannot be unmounted, I need to reboot to fix this. I think it would be much better if LVM defaulted to a more modest size for root, since 1) file systems can grow online, and 2) LVM isn't particularly useful if you only want a single partition anyway.
-k
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| Ketil Malde (ketil-ii) wrote | #1 |
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| Dan Trevino (dantrevino) wrote | #2 |
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| Scott Kitterman (kitterman) wrote | #3 |
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| status: | Triaged → Fix Released |
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Just to clarify this a bit, the above is when choosing the "Guided" partitioning, I redid the install with manual partitioning, and got the system configured the way I wanted it. So the problem is the Guided partitioning choosing a suboptimal configuration. A 10G root partition should suffice, I think - or, the user could perhaps choose between multiple predefined configurations (e.g. single root, root+home, root+var+tmp+home, etc)
-k