/usr partition should be > 1.5GiB (change warning)

[BlackAdder]

When installing Ubuntu 8.10, one can assign a specific partition to the /usr filesystem. When this partition is smaller than ~1.5GiB, the installer will complain. However, /usr takes up much more space.

[BlackAdder (jan-doornaert)]

It would seem that ~1.7GiB is sufficient for /usr, but would recommend at least 2GiB.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

That's interesting, because this value is not static - it's computed on the fly by looking at how much space /usr on the live filesystem needs. This should be quite accurate, although it probably wouldn't hurt to add a bit of a fudge factor for filesystems other than /.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

I'm just going to add 20% to the dynamically-calculated size, for luck.

[BlackAdder (jan-doornaert)]

20% should do - but only just so - based on my experience.
What (upcoming) release will this fix be in?

And... thanks for fixing!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ubiquity - 1.11.16

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ubiquity (1.11.16) jaunty; urgency=low

  [ Evan Dandrea ]
  * Incorporate the final time zone map artwork. Support some
    additional time zones on the map.

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * KDE frontend:
    - grub_device_entry is now a combobox, so we need to use currentText()
      rather than text() (LP: #337181).
  * GTK frontend:
    - Fix suggested keymap handling so that selecting that option after
      selecting a custom keymap applies the suggested keymap (LP: #337998).
  * Add a fudge of 20% to the size of each tree on the live filesystem
    (other than / and /boot, which already have their own fudge factors) for
    the purposes of the partition-too-small check (LP: #298318).
  * Automatic update of included source packages: choose-mirror 2.27ubuntu4,
    clock-setup 0.97ubuntu3, partman-partitioning 64ubuntu5.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:19:54 +0000