Felix Miata said the following on 12/02/2011 07:55 PM:
Conventional partitioning is as much art as science, with definition of "steps" colored heavily by expectations and knowledge or lack thereof.
Very much so. Its a "One man's meat is another man's poison" situation
... How big to make the new partition depends on how much space you want to reserve for one or more / (or other) partitions for use with openSUSE and any others you may wish to install, test or otherwise dabble with.
This is the reason I use LVM. In future I may use BtrFS. I realise at first sight LVM may look more complicated, but when it comes down to it its no more difficult, an install time, than creating an extended partition. The partition manager then just iterates and lets you create partitions inside the LVM just as it would if you had created an extended partition. The important difference, especially for a newbie, is that if you misjudge the size of the partition you can adjust it. I use ReiserFS so I don't even have to unmount the partition to adjust the size of the file system! Of course come BtrFS this all becomes so much simpler! -- Companies don't buy the [ADT] Security service because it makes their warehouses more secure; they buy it because they can get a better deal on their insurance - Bruce Schneier "Secrets and Lies" pp 386 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org