I recently installed debian 12 using debian-12.2.0-arm64-netinst.iso. It is the only OS installed and I used the whole 500GB disk.
I selected something like guided partitioning with separate /home/ using LVM and encryption. Now that I am using my system a bit, I realize that I don’t think it ever asked me how big to make the / partition and it is very small. Only 27GB.
Will this be a problem?
Or, is the LVM going to allow the partition to be resized or otherwise take up as much of the space as it requires?
# lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda 8:0 0 476.9G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 512M 0 part /boot/efi
├─sda2 8:2 0 488M 0 part /boot
└─sda3 8:3 0 476G 0 part
└─sda3_crypt 253:0 0 475.9G 0 crypt
├─mycomputer--vg-root 253:1 0 27.9G 0 lvm /
├─mycomputer--vg-swap_1 253:2 0 976M 0 lvm [SWAP]
└─mycomputer--vg-home 253:3 0 447G 0 lvm /home
I tried booting into a live usb to resize the partition using gparted but I couldn’t seem to do so.
If I need to reinstall and change something I’d rather do it now than later.
It’s fine. “Only 27GB” is hardly too small for the system, even a bloated system wouldn’t take that much space.
But if you must have a larger partition I think a reinstall would be easier, resize the partition is possible but because of the encryption not a straight forward thing. I wouldn’t bother really.
If LVM isn’t somehow mitigating the issue I will do a reinstall.
I have run out of space on
/before and it is a huge pain in the ass. I do not need much room for/homeon this system so I would prefer to be cautious and avoid problems down the road.Hopefully I will be able to figure out how to specify this… maybe a different installer image.
It’s two commands to grow the / fs on the fly:
So don’t worry about it. LVM is great :).
The installer lets you do a custom partition layout.
That is my previous experience. I guess i missed it somehow.