John Levon wrote: > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 02:27:31PM +0100, jan damborsky wrote: > >> * search for first disk with at least 'recommended' space available >> (taking into account further upgrades and swap and dump devices). >> >> * If such disk is not found, pick up the first one with at least >> minimum space available (size of bits to be installed plus some >> reserve - 20% for now is used) >> >> * if there is no disk with at least minimum required space available, >> inform user and give up. >> >> Please let me know, if it might sound reasonable. > > I presume there's a step 0: > > * use disk specified in the manifest, if any, reporting an error and > quitting if it's not the minimum size > > This sounds like a good plan. >
20% seems like a lot of padding, it'll typically add somewhere around 500 MB to the required size; how accurate are our estimates of installed size here, anyway? Dave
