Separate Disks for OS and Storage

[dresken]

Shrinking disks is a lot harder than growing - or adding further storage

We are deploying multiple nodes to just use NetBoot (not SUS) and actual disk usage is much much lower than the supposed minimum requirements. Would be good to have some flexibility for admins to be able to remove the huge default and replace with another disk of appropriate size for their installation

Something along the lines of for the default:
/ = 15 GB
/srv/NetBoot = 200 GB

I could easily replace the NetBoot partition with one more appropriate in this case - however I am having a hard time justifying 6 appliances with 1200 GB that will not be used

[duel007]

Could you not thin provision instead of thick provision, or use the installer on a preconfigured VM rather than the appliance?

[jelockwood]

The standard setup uses /srv on the boot drive. However it is a matter of a few seconds to do

mv /srv /srv-old
mount yoursharedstorage /mnt/shared
ln -s /mnt/shared/srv /srv

(Or something similar.)

This gives you separate storage for the large files and does not change the file paths as used by the appliance.