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On 19/04/2026 at 20:29, Lodi wrote:
During installation I generally advise people to use automatic
partitioning using lvm with encryption. The issue is with the defailt
size allocation for the / partition when asking for separate /home or
separate /home, /tmp and /var partitions. On a 1 terrabyte disk it
allocates 30 GB for root. This is very small for a desktop.
AFAICS on a 1TB disk the space allocated to the root partition/volume is
about 60GB (~5%), not 30.
IME even 30GB is more than enough in many desktop use cases. My own root
filesystem (including /var) uses less than 10GB. However on smaller disk
sizes such as 250GB, it has been reported that the root filesystem may
be too small in some use cases, so one may consider raising the root
filesystem priority in partman-auto "home" and "multi" recipes a bit.
It would be helpful to either have a distinction before selecting a
disk, ie "server" and "desktop"
This distinction already exists: guided partitioning offers a "server"
recipe, which allocates most disk space to /srv instead of /home. But
the space allocated to / is about the same as in "home" and "multi".
or the posibility to change the default distrubtion between the
different volumes in the vg.
Guided partitioning with LVM gives the option to reserve some free space
in the VG for future allocation. You can use this space to grow logical
volumes as needed.
