Holger Wansing <hwans...@mailbox.org> writes: > Hi, > > Am 8. August 2024 08:16:03 MESZ schrieb Pascal Hambourg > <pas...@plouf.fr.eu.org>: >>On 07/08/2024 at 20:33, Holger Wansing wrote: >>> >>> A recipe specific for server installations, which limits the swap to let's >>> say 1G or 2G, because the machine has enough RAM built-in. >> >>What would be the other partitions in this "server" recipe ? >>- /var/log as suggested by José Ángel Pastrana ? >>- /srv ? > > I think, a separate /srv and /var would be useful. > >>>> limiting the swap size to the lower of >>>> 100% RAM size and ~5% (open to discussion) disk space. >> >>Any opinions about this ? > > A good default IMO.
Sorry for being late to the party. I also think this looks a lot better than what we currently have. While we're changing things, could we distinguish between LVM recipes and non-LVM ones? I tend to install servers with something like the multi recipe, except instead of devoting the bulk of the disk to /home I instead leave it unallocated (which I do by allocating a spare volume, with keep set to avoid wasting time formatting it, and I then remove in the late script). That then gives the flexibility of easily adding volumes or extending them, as needed by the system. At present I'm doing that with this fragment of my preseed framework: https://hands.com/d-i/preseed/classes/partition/_/unfilled/ but we could include this as a feature of D-I if people thought it was useful, and could presumably implement it without needing to allocate and then remove the spare bit as I'm doing at present. The other thing I tend to when using multiple partitions is allocate 1.5GB to /boot so that there's enough room for a grml image for use in conjunction with the grml-rescueboot package. Would it be worth making the upper limit for /boot be 1.5G, and using a scaling factor (if possible) that will only use that much for disks larger than 1TB, say, as then its a small enough proportion to be no loss even if people don't use it for grml. Cheers, Phil. -- Philip Hands -- https://hands.com/~phil
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