From Forum, some inexperienced folk, need in practice to guide the layout and
reuse partitions, so demystifying it would help. The problem is though,
nothing in the recent Windows world has educated them about PC partitioning.
Some introduction to the concepts is needed, and an overview of process, rather
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User rob.opensuse.linux@googlemail.com added comment
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--- Comment #3 from Robert Davies 2009-02-05 07:11:55 MST ---
Point 1 - That's when configure a partitions filesystem in expert mode after
choosing "Create" in "Partion based setup", having double clicked on the device
after looking at disk or volume group to select it, the "Accept" button becomes
"Finish" with Abort and Back as options, the From is entitled "Edit Partion
/dev/hda5" with Format and Mount options available.
I found it very unclear, how to apply those changes to the proposal and move to
next issue. "Finish" was also commented on in the Forums independantly when
they discussed the partitioner.
When you don't know what's happening, it's very easy to get lost, you're really
editting a proposal
My attempt to clarify multiple issues was flawed.
Point 0 - Clarity - Building a Proposal
"When you are working within the installer, there should be a way to make it
clear that you are just changing a proposal, that changes are only committed to
disk later. That would allow for more relaxed working, and few mistakes as
stressed users, tend to make more errors."
This is important to for first timers.
Point 2 & 3
than saying you should be an expert. Due to the popular confusion between
partition, filesystem and drive; this would seem to be difficult to explain in
a text explanation. I really wonder if web pages aren't a better hope.
I think something early on like "No changes will be made to disk until you
Apply your Proposal". Then a warning "Reminder : Applying an incorrect
proposal may cause loss of data" might encourage checking.
But for this kind of thing, many heads are probably better than one. Stefan
Hundhammer used a blog article to get feedback
http://lizards.opensuse.org/2009/01/27/tabbed-browsing-for-packages-follow-u...
Though he had useful graphics which focussed the discussion.
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