Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
On 23.06.2008 at 13:33, Dave Plater <davejplater@gmail.com> wrote: I've reopened the enhancement request and hopefully people who want this feature will vote for it otherwise it may just get closed again. I'm sure it can't be difficult to display disk usage prior to accepting installation. Regards Dave P
Dave,
I think just telling that there will be xxx MB more space used (as zypper does) is probably easy... but in fact the information is rather useless, if you don't have all your system on one partition.
What, if you have /usr split out, /var, /etc, var/tmp, /usr/share.. name it... everything CAN be separated.. just with the metadata you have no idea how much you're going to install on any of your partitions. Without this knowlefge, the information on how much space anything needs, get's really pretty useless....
Dominique
Yast used to display a per partition usage since I first used suse 7.3. I didn't like the 10.3 graph idea but it still displayed per partition usage, even including ntfs partitions which I thought was pretty useless. There is enough space bottom left of the installation summary window in yast2 qt and ncurses to display quite a lot of info. I used to split /usr and /opt from / once but never got any real balance and ended up using more space. The only possible reason I could think of would be spreading them across disks. You are right though the info is useless in that case but a user who is worried about disk space would likely not split usr from /. Regards Dave P --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org