On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 08:03:39AM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi, > > On Sunday 19 February 2012 04:34:17 Jerry McAllister wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 12:07:30PM +0100, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > > > > So, Polytropon's three choice pattern is good. Or, I could even > > suggest just two choices. > > > yes, three options is ok. > > > [ ] all in one + swap > > Create one partition containing all subtrees > > plus one swap partition. > > > > [ ] user-defined > > Make your own partitioning selection manually. > > (Both number and size of partitions) > > with a reasonable way to specify partitions and sizes. > > The old Sysinstall way is not bad, but if it obsolete, > > then something as easy that fits the new GPT based system. > > > A normal user will use the first option here and get screwed when the file > system got affected by a power failure. The second option is not an option > for a general user. > > > But, that middle choice that Polytropon suggested is OK to include > > if you think it is needed. /, /tmp, /usr, /var, [/home] +swap > > Yes, I strong urge you to leave this at least as an option. > Just with a larger / slice of 1 or better 2GB. > > > > I don't see that this plan adds any significant complication or confusion. > > Nor does it prevent any of the schemes people have been advocating or > > requesting. > > You seem to forget normal users who just want to use the system. > They do not think of recovery until it actually happens.
We forgot nothing. They can just select option 1 and then later when something happens so learn otherwise, if they ever do, they will have option 3 to more specifically build their system according to their newly perceived needs. ////jerry > > Erich _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"