On Mon, 21 May 2007, M9. wrote: > We see that the suggestion to create a serious partitioner, like PQ > Partition Magic was not so bad at all. > I constantly run into problems, because it is much too difficult too > change the sizes of existing partitions. > > Now, one has too back-up his/her home, throw away all partitions, and > start all over again. > > And in the low ram case, one is not even capable to reach the partioner, > which is off course not very sane.. > > More logic would be: Load the files nessesary to create what is needed > first, (the room for the system, and i am still convinced, that there > are seperate partitions needed, for: /boot,/,/opt,/usr,/var, (and evt > /tmp), swap, and /home.) and then, one should be able to change sizes, > without having to delete /home. > > It must be possible to reduce the size of /home, if more room for fi: > /boot, /usr, and/or /var is needed. > > I realy mean that it is totaly anoying, not being able to change your > available room, without spending hours to back-up the data you want to > save..
IIRC there was a project once (long past) for a standalone-partitioner (based on parted, if I'm not mistaken). My personal opinion is that a really good partitioner is one of those projects that will never be done for linux. > I hope it is not too late for 10.3 final, to change this, but this hope > might be in vane... > > I simply can not understand that nobody else finds this nessesary. Actually, I don't partition my drives that much. Like, apparently, most users. ;-) Steffen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
