Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (850 mails)

[Lukas Ocilka <lukas.ocilka@xxxxxxx>]

Azerion wrote:
> Saw an request about partiotioning and though 'lets split things out'. So here 
> is a thread about the parrtition-wizard from openSUSE-installer.
> 
>> I also recognized that openSUSE wants to delete my root AND also my
>> home partition, when doing a fresh install. It would be  better to
>> have a detection that asks if one wants to keep the home partition.
>> Personally I always update SUSE by installing in root and keeping all
>> my data on /home.
> 
> Good point.
> 
> Add to that, that data on an encrypted disk probably haves an huge value. At 
> this moment the installer would format it as /home cause it is my biggest 
> partition. 
> 
> Won't report a wish yet, discussion comes first.

Well, you have better use "Update" and not a "New Installation" in this
case. However, I've asked a maintainer of the partitioner package what
does he think of that.

Partitioner, as it is now, is a very-well done considering the unseen
layer (e.g., API), on the other hand, dialogs need to be changed to
match our needs better. This is work in progress...

L.