[Server-devel] Customized partitions

[Tony Pearson]

> To: "Tim Moody" <timmoody at sympatico.ca>
> In general a little more flexibility for people who are testing would be 

> nice including, while I'm at it, the ability to partition the machine 
during 
> the install.

> From: John Watlington <wad at laptop.org>
> Disks are cheap.   Why wouldn't we want testers all using the same
> partition layout ?   The current partition layout can be critized and
> changed, but preserving sanity is easier with a common partitioning
> scheme across the XS servers.

> BTW, that is a one line change in the kickstart file --- you can 
> trivially build your own school server image that lets you manually set 
> partitions...

At IBM we outlawed the phrase "It's a piece of cake" by our more senior 
sotware engineers, as what is easy for them, may not be so obvious for 
others with less experience.

I agree that the basic partitioning scheme is fine:  100MB for /boot, 8G 
for / root, and the rest as LVM space for swap and /library.

For those interested in customized partitions, see my instructions here:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Az990tony/squashfs-surgery

Tony Pearson
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Az990tony
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