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Bug#431296: Default partitioning on LVM-LUKS provides too small /

From: Chris Lamb <chris(at)chris-lamb.co.uk>
Date: Wed Dec 26 2007 - 19:57:28 EST

tags 431296 + patch
thanks

It might be time to re-examine the 280MB maximum size of / for the "multi" partitioning recipes.

Similar to Didier I recently went to install 2.6.23-1 alongside 2.6.22-3 and the installation failed as I ran out of space.

In Chris Walker's original bug message (#248278, May 2004), which caused the maximum to be raised from 150MB to it's current maximum, he stated that a /lib/modules/<kversion> directory uses 30MB each: they now use 70MB on my system. You may choose to factor in an additional 10MB for each installed kernel to account for an Nvidia binary driver, which--for my sins--I use.

This problem may be especially prevalent on the amd64 architecture because ia32-libs, libc6-i386, lib32* and friends install to /emul/ia32-linux; this directory is consuming just over 100MB on my system. Futhermore, amd64 binaries tend to be slightly larger than their i386 counterparts.

I therefore tentatively suggest a new value in the region on 380MB. A patch that increases the current maximum to this value for amd64 alone is attached. A patch that makes the change 'globally' would be trivial.

Regards,

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