What is default size of / folder in rhel7 with automatic lvm ?

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Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x

Issue

  • What is default size of / folder in rhel7 with automatic lvm ?

Resolution

  • Please check below source code.
  • "/" folder's max size is 50GB but "/home" code(size) is different from rhel6.
  Snip from pyanaconda/installclass.py

 def setDefaultPartitioning(self, storage):
        autorequests = [PartSpec(mountpoint="/", fstype=storage.defaultFSType,
                                 size=1024, maxSize=50*1024, grow=True,
                                 btr=True, lv=True, thin=True, encrypted=True),
                        PartSpec(mountpoint="/home", fstype=storage.defaultFSType,
                                 size=500, grow=True, requiredSpace=50*1024,
                                 btr=True, lv=True, thin=True, encrypted=True)]
  • RHEL 6 code is below.
 def setDefaultPartitioning(self, storage, platform):
        autorequests = [PartSpec(mountpoint="/", fstype=storage.defaultFSType,
                                 size=1024, maxSize=50*1024, grow=True,
                                 asVol=True),
                        PartSpec(mountpoint="/home", fstype=storage.defaultFSType,
                                 size=100, grow=True, asVol=True, requiredSpace=50*1024)]

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