On 27/08/2024 at 12:42, Holger Wansing wrote:
And I did some tests again; the results are at [2].
To give a short summary: the results are really really great !!!
(I tested all default recipes).
I wonder if / should not grow a bit faster (higher priority).
Also, this caught my eye:
<https://people.debian.org/~holgerw/d-i__new-limits_and_fix-envelope-calculation/attempt_2/10G-disk__1G-RAM/use-entire-disk__separate-home-var-tmp.png>
/home is smaller than the minimum size defined by the recipe. It should
not happen. I cannot even figure out how such a result is possible. The
multi recipe minimum disk size is 11GB so it should not have been
available with a 10.7GB disk. I need to investigate.
Just two small notes:
- the text for the new small_disk recipe should be changed, it says
it's for disks "< 1G" but I think you meant "< 10G".
Actually I just forgot to update the existing description, good catch. I
will do it.
- when choosing "use LVM" the small_disk recipe is provided as choice,
but it fails when I try it.
Could it be changed, so it just works?
(Not highest priority, but using LVM in such case of small disk would
allow, to add another disk later and get rid of the "low diskspace"
issue without reinstalling - at least when the machine hardware/housing
allows to add one more disk).
I did not consider this use case. Wouldn't it be simpler to use manual
partitioning ?
Or otherwise the entry should be not visible.
This was my initial intent. I removed the lvmok flag (and /boot) from
the small_disk recipe and expected it to be ignored when using LVM.
Looking at partman-auto-lvm code more closely, it seems that the lvmok
flag check happens only after calling choose_recipe. So I guess the
check should be moved into choose_recipe (in partman-auto).
BTW: I could not test the ESP part, since my test image cannot boot via EFI.
My remastering somehow breaks the EFI boot capabilities...
Indeed, the EFI partition/El Torito image is missing. A workaround it to
extract the EFI partition from the original image, copy it to an other
disk/image and boot from it. It should then find the CD.
