On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 22:42 -0500, Rajko M. wrote:
On Tuesday 18 September 2007 20:15, Carlos E. R. wrote:
You can simply leave space unpartitioned and decide later. But... Having multiple partitions is more work to plan sizes, maintain the system, add them to new installed system specially if it is different distribution. One can experience strange problems if one program attempts to use same name cache or database in /var that is common for few of them. The command rpm comes as an example.
So, I would use openSUSE default. It seems good for desktop use. At least all installation scripts know about it and installing and removing packages will not involve manual work.
I disagree with that, even in multi-boot systems, several *nix would maintain their own knowledge of their unique partitions, based on their own copy of fstab. You would have to purposefully force one distro to mount say a common /tmp PARTITION to get any corruption or "cross-talk" problems. In addition to the other layouts mentioned, I always have /usr on one drive, and /usr/lib on a second. Programs LOAD measurably faster, sourced from two physical drive units. But I never "cross-link" any partitions between my 9.3 and 10.2 versions...other than "local" storage partitions /local, /graphic, /data, and /kids that contain "work" files. Tom in NM -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org