[Gnewsense-dev] installer: wasted swap

[Dika Setya Prayogi]

looks like the guided partitioning/auto partition in the gnewsense
installer works in percentage formula, this may lead in a wasting
space

say i have a 4 gb fdrive with guided partition will result in 3.8 GB
ext and 200 MB swap, Meanwhile with my 120 GB drive i get 115.1 GB ext
and 4.9 swap thats a very big waste, 1 GB more than enough for regular
user, real memory is better than a swap

looking at the debian strecth installer the same problem still exist
dont know why this happen, maybe developer likes to partition
themselves and almost forgot the guided partition exsist

[Dika Setya Prayogi]

should we fix this ?

[Sam Geeraerts]

Op Mon, 12 Sep 2016 13:51:42 +0700

Post by Dika Setya Prayogi
say i have a 4 gb fdrive with guided partition will result in 3.8 GB
ext and 200 MB swap, Meanwhile with my 120 GB drive i get 115.1 GB ext
and 4.9 swap thats a very big waste, 1 GB more than enough for regular
user, real memory is better than a swap

If you want to use hibernation, then the swap space should be at least
as big as the amount of RAM.

Post by Dika Setya Prayogi
looking at the debian strecth installer the same problem still exist
dont know why this happen, maybe developer likes to partition
themselves and almost forgot the guided partition exsist

I don't immediately find a relevant bug report for debian-installer
[1]. Maybe there's a good reason for this behaviour. Could you check
with Debian's support channels [2] for an explanation behaviour? Or
maybe check the calculation in the source code?

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/debian-installer
[2] http://www.debian.org/support