On 2/18/2012 8:03 PM, Erich Dollansky wrote:
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.
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.
I don't know if I count as a *normal* user but here's my two cents:
Some of you think it isn't a good idea to put everything on one
partition. I'm not yet ready to manually set them up. Every time I get
into it I read tens of articles and blogs and they all boil down to "it
depends".
So some middle-ground "this guy is willing to learn but can't set it up
optimally, and doesn't want a bad config because he is still somewhat
confused" option should be available, and possibly labeled as such.
-- Stephen
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