On Thursday 16 March 2006 14:09, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
David Wright
writes: Just a word of warning regarding the new default partition sizes suggested by YaST. I have a 10GB root partition on my laptop and just went to install IBM Rational Software Architect. The install files take up around 2.5GB of space and the installed program itself takes another 2GB (I eliminated some of the options I didn't need)
We could change the parameter for the calculation, currently we use 10 GB as maximal size for root - but this is just one parameter to change...
So, what do others think?
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) 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. So I keep it simple.