bug reports regarding users running out of disk space

[Lars Wirzenius]

ti, 2009-04-14 kello 04:35 -0400, Mackenzie Morgan kirjoitti:
> On Tuesday 14 April 2009 4:27:05 am Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > On of the things I'm strongly thinking of proposing for Karmic is to
> > switch to having /tmp on a tmpfs, as long as the user has a swap *file*
> > rather than a partition.
> 
> Is there an option for this in the installer somewhere?

If I have understood things correctly, swap files are now as efficient
as swap partitions. Many new laptops and desktops come with several
gigabytes of RAM, meaning that swapping is often rare. "Twice the size
of RAM" is a common default for swap partition size, and that means that
there's several gigabytes of disk space that is essentially unused.
While disks have also grown a lot, it's still gigabytes of unused space:
waste not, want not.

In this circumstance, I think it'd be a good idea for the karmic
installer to switch to using swap files by default, requiring manual
partitioning if the user wants swap partitions.

Or perhaps I'm completely misunderstanding things?