the front falls off if disk is too small

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when trying out 9front in a virtual machine like vmware, people
tend to give it a way too small disk because they dont know
about the dump filesystem.

turns out this is a very common error and we might take some
action in the installer to prevent it.

open for ideas :-)

Original issue reported on code.google.com by cinap_le...@felloff.net on 20 Jul 2011 at 8:11

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idea 1. implement kfs in the installer / cwfs without the cw part
idea 2. warn about cwfs on small disks

Original comment by a...@phicode.de on 20 Jul 2011 at 7:25

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users who simply want to take a test drive invariably balk at the requirement 
for a "huge" (> 1gb) partition. kfs might be a good option for ancient or 
embedded (think solid state disk) machines.

Original comment by stanley....@gmail.com on 20 Jul 2011 at 11:13

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The installer could offer the choice of kfs or cwfs, as aiju told, and warn if 
cwfs is selected for a small disk.
Or selected automatically based on the disk size.

Original comment by iru.mu...@gmail.com on 20 Jul 2011 at 11:58

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I vote for 2), disk space is plentiful and cheap, if people are cheap sissies 
and don't want to allocate enough space, they can fuck of and go use another 
crap OS. Also most VMs allow for sparse images.

Original comment by ur...@berlinblue.org on 18 Aug 2011 at 12:58

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Original comment by cinap_le...@felloff.net on 4 Nov 2011 at 11:05

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but then ron will complain he doesn't have place for 9front on his chromebook :(

Original comment by 23h...@gmail.com on 30 Jul 2012 at 10:15

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Original comment by a...@phicode.de on 10 Aug 2012 at 10:01

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