Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4344 mails)

[nordi <nordi@xxxxxxxxx>]

Andreas Girardet wrote:
> I do agree totally. The default are the ones the user sees. /home is
> crucial.
The question here is: How big should the /home partition be? Sounds
trivial, but there is no 100% solution that will fit all the needs. For
some users, a 10GB /home may be much too small. For me, 1GB would be
absolutely enough, since I store the remaining gigabytes on my windows
partition anyway, so I can also easily access my data with windows.

Whatever automatic setup you choose, there will always be some people
complaining because it does not fit their needs! IMHO _not_ creating a
special /home seems to be the best compromise that will create the least
problems.


> Also /boot should be reinstated since grub has been playing up
> on some systems of mine with the silly 1024 limit!

I agree on /boot, although for a different reason. A friend of mine had
a Suse system. One time it crashed and after that not even grub would
start! Turned out his file system for / had some corruptions cause by
the crash that prevented grub from reading /boot/grub/menu.lst. As a
result, he couldn't even start windows! With /boot on a seperate
partition this could not happen, since /boot is hardly ever written to.

Regards
Stefan