User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008121621 Ubuntu/8.04 (hardy) Firefox/3.0.5 During installation, Anaconda can create logical volumes for most common partitions, but it will use remaining space for "/". Often it's nice to have "/home" on a separate partition, or sometimes less swap space is needed. Also, using up 100% of a PV means it's impossible to ever use LVM snapshots for anything. It would be nifty if during installation there was an option to only allocate 10-15G of disk for "/" and leave the remaining free. As a logical volume would approach being full, the system would automatically* pull from free LVM space and grow the filesystem up to a certain amount. Either automatically, or with user interaction. Reproducible: Always
Seems to be an anaconda feature request...
Hi Matthias, It's partially anaconda, but also with hal and dbus. If there was free space available on a PV, hal+dbus+an applet could grow a LV as needed by the user, that way /home could be on a separate lv from / or /var/log and grow any LV as needed. Just an idea. :)
The custom partitioning interface in anaconda allows you to leave free space available. You can even have it make the default partitioning scheme, then go in and shrink things down a little bit yourself to leave as much free space as you want. The rest of this RFE is definitely outside the scope of anaconda, though. I don't know where to move it to but it should definitely be opened against some other component that actually does things on the running system.