Silviu Marin-Caea wrote: ...
I use one large partition for everything.Whenever I reinstall (every SUSE alpha/beta): 1. I mount the partition during installation ([Ctrl+Alt+F2] gives me a console 2. delete everything except /home2 (where I keep my data)
wtf is /home2 supposed to be ? ;)Just do that with /home, and that makes 2 partitions at the very least, not one ;)
3. umount 4. carry on with installation 5. in the yast partitioner I select "Do not format" for the root partition.Having more that one partition on a desktop system is an unnecessary complication IMHO. It wastes space (because no partition will ever be 100% full) and can get you into the sort of trouble like the OP had.
I don't agree at all. Having /home on its own partition is very often a lifesaver. You could even wipe the root partition and reinstall something from scratch and you'd still have your data.
Also, to me, LVM is part of the perfect setup, but we've had that discussion already a few months ago.
How often do I see people in IRC asking for a way to add disk space to their Linux partition. Well, if it hasn't been virtualized with LVM in the first place, you're left with the mount options for subtrees like /usr, /var, /opt (which helps in some situations, but not in all - e.g. have a larger /home). This really isn't atypical IMO, especially for people who are using Linux for the first time, with Windows on several other partitions. They don't know how much diskspace to assign to Linux, and then they start using it, and they use it more and more, and then those 4 or 8 GB just aren't enough any more.
cheers -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _\_v FOSDEM 2006 -- 25+26 February 2006 in Brussels
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