On 2019/11/19 10:11, Craig Skinner wrote: > On Thu, 7 Nov 2019 14:42:32 +0000 Stuart Henderson wrote: > > On 2019/11/07 11:15, Craig Skinner wrote: > > > On Wed, 6 Nov 2019 13:41:07 +0100 Renaud Allard wrote: > > > > Given the amount of people which encrypt /home directory on their > > > > servers, it might be useful to be able to define another directory for > > > > the sets in sysupgrade as /home_sysupgrade will not be available in > > > > that > > > > case. > > > > > > How about /var/cache/sysupgrade/ as the default? > > > > > > i.e: sysupgrade caches files which are variable over time. > > > > > > > > > > The merits of different filesystems were already discussed when choosing the > > current default - disklabel auto layout usually leaves a fair amount of > > space > > in /home, reduces risk of running out of space in a fairly import system fs, > > and avoids consuming space on an fs where files are unpacked during the > > upgrade install. > > > > If the installer created a 750Mb /var/cache/ partition, and sysupgrade's cache > directory is hard coded as /var/cache/sysupgrade/, would that simply solve > the various problems people are having & scripting difficulties? > > Other tools which cache files in /home/ or /var/db/ could also use /var/cache/ > > > Cheers, > -- > Craig Skinner | http://linkd.in/yGqkv7 >
We are short on partitions, there is a hard limit (14+swap), disklabel auto defaults already use 9, and there need to be some free for typical user use (ports, dest for "make release", people often want a separate /var/www and/or /var/log).
