On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 04:18:12PM +0100, David Wright wrote:
And most machine bought today with a dual-layer burner built in will tend to have >150GB hard disks - laptops being an exception, the DL burnered laptop has only 80GB of disk space...
Not all systems that will run SUSE are the most recent ones. With large drives there is no real problem. I myself have no problem with 2 150GB drives, a 40GB, a 30GB and some ISO stuff.
Everybody is going to have different requirements, so I am with you in a certain respect, continually growing the root partition for everybody because some people might need more is not the real answer, but there are a lot of applications that do need more space either on root or on one of the directories that default to being on the root partition.
As far as I can see, I am the only one who is defending the 10GB max. If many people think this should change, then please say so, but do this with an algorithm as well. At this moment the calculation is: A) 1/3 / and 2/3 /home B) Max 10GB / Perhaps something else is better e.g. A) no seperation on drives smaller then X B) minimal 10GB / C) 1/4 / and 3/4 /home D) Max 20GB / Or something else all together.
I'm logging into the Wiki as I write this, I'll start on writing a page for this... (I did a search and didn't find an existing one)
I propose something like:
Installation Planning Hardware Partitioning Software Package Selection Network Configuration ...
Let it be known that the page is for advanced users. Beginners should just be able to click OK. houghi -- Nutze die Zeit. Sie ist das Kostbarste, was wir haben, denn es ist unwiederbringliche Lebenszeit. Leben ist aber mehr als Werk und Arbeit, und das Sein wichtiger als das Tun - Johannes Müller-Elmau