On Mon, 21 May 2007, M9. wrote:
We see that the suggestion to create a serious partitioner, like PQ Partition Magic was not so bad at all. I constantly run into problems, because it is much too difficult too change the sizes of existing partitions.
Now, one has too back-up his/her home, throw away all partitions, and start all over again.
And in the low ram case, one is not even capable to reach the partioner, which is off course not very sane..
More logic would be: Load the files nessesary to create what is needed first, (the room for the system, and i am still convinced, that there are seperate partitions needed, for: /boot,/,/opt,/usr,/var, (and evt /tmp), swap, and /home.) and then, one should be able to change sizes, without having to delete /home.
It must be possible to reduce the size of /home, if more room for fi: /boot, /usr, and/or /var is needed.
I realy mean that it is totaly anoying, not being able to change your available room, without spending hours to back-up the data you want to save..
IIRC there was a project once (long past) for a standalone-partitioner (based on parted, if I'm not mistaken). My personal opinion is that a really good partitioner is one of those projects that will never be done for linux.
I hope it is not too late for 10.3 final, to change this, but this hope might be in vane...
I simply can not understand that nobody else finds this nessesary.
Actually, I don't partition my drives that much. Like, apparently, most users. ;-) Steffen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org