Bug#893108: debian-edu-install: please do not force complex partitioning scheme

Mike Gabriel <[email protected]> Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:51:23 +0000

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Control: close -1
Control: tags -1 wontfix

Hi all,

On  Mo 19 Mär 2018 08:23:41 CET, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:

> [Wolfgang Schweer]
>>> I propose compeltely dropping Edu's own partitioning scheme and simply
>>> using the corresponding step from the Debian installer, or defaulting to
>>> jsut one partition or at most three (root, home and backup).
>>
>> IMO this change would reduce the existing flexibility to rather simple
>> use cases.
>
> With one partition, a user will be able to kill system services that are
> unable to cope with a full /var/.  And that is the case for quite a lot
> of services.  I strongly recommend against the 'just one partition'
> idea.
>
> Users are able to write to /tmp/ and /var/tmp/, and can easily fill up
> those partitions too.  I came up with the current partition scheme used
> in Debian Edu based on the scheme used at the university of Oslo for 30
> years, to ensure good reliability for system services while keeping theq
> flexibility provided by LVM.  It is not really 'complex', and the
> debian-edu-fsautoresize tool allow easy adjustment for partition sizes
> when needed.
>
> --
> Happy hacking
> Petter Reinholdtsen

I agree with Petter on the above and share the same observation /  
experience and love the greater flexibility.

Closing this bug with wontfix tag.

light+love,
Mike
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