The Skolelinux installer enforces a micropartitioning theme, splitting
all parts of the filesystem into several volumes. While there are
theoretical benefits, most a re historic, and in practice, the scheme
complicates installations and maintenance (there is an entire chapter in
the manual describing what to do if something runs full).

I know from at least two support cases that the scheme made things more
difficult than necessary, and it cost me several hours today because I
had to install Debian Edu with limited space and one of the partitions
always ended up being too small.

I propose compeltely dropping Edu's own partitioning scheme and simply
using the corresponding step from the Debian installer, or defaulting to
jsut one partition or at most three (root, home and backup).
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It's proposed, not enforced; a user can choose a different partion recipe
after declining to use automatic partitioning.

IMO this change would reduce the existing flexibility to rather simple
use cases.

Wolfgang

[Wolfgang Schweer]

With one partition, a user will be able to kill system services that are
unable to cope with a full /var/.  And that is the case for quite a lot
of services.  I strongly recommend against the 'just one partition'
idea.

Users are able to write to /tmp/ and /var/tmp/, and can easily fill up
those partitions too.  I came up with the current partition scheme used
in Debian Edu based on the scheme used at the university of Oslo for 30
years, to ensure good reliability for system services while keeping theq
flexibility provided by LVM.  It is not really 'complex', and the
debian-edu-fsautoresize tool allow easy adjustment for partition sizes
when needed.

Hi all,

I agree with Petter on the above and share the same observation /
experience and love the greater flexibility.

Closing this bug with wontfix tag.

light+love,
Mike