Am Dienstag, 27. September 2005 17:55 schrieb Andreas Jaeger: > Robert Schiele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 01:18:53PM +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
Hi, > >> Does anybody have such general algorithm? I think, it is impossible to decide what's right for the user. A home-user, who installs linux "just for fun" is quite right with one swap and one root partition. Most of them have only one hd and also windows on it. If they look in the diskmanager of windows and see lots of partitons they get confused. And to backup the home directory before you reinstall is not dificult. To have a separate /home partition is not always a good thing, sharing ~/.kde between SuSE 10.0 and Debian Sarge may work, but sharing between SuSE 10.0 and SuSE 8.2 will get you in trouble. Also sharing ~/.profile between different distros will give you suprising results. If you do a server install, it's up to the usage what's the right partitioning schema. Somebody mentioned a 2GB /var parition earlier in this thread: if you have e.g. a webserver with a database backend you need much more space on /var! And remember, regardless what size your partitions are, at least one of them is too small... > > I think the most general algorithm is: "This damn partitioner > > should always exactly propose what I expect him to propose in any > > arbitrary situation! Ah, and by the way it should double the disk > > space on every installation time." This _is_ the best. Even windows let's the user decide, what partition to delete/recreate for installation. What about a "Inspect partition content"-Button in YaST, so you can take a look, before you kill your data. -- mdc --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
