On 11/18/2018 11:10 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 16/11/2018 16.46, Richard Brown wrote:
On Fri, 16 Nov 2018 at 16:44, Robert Munteanu <rombert@apache.org> wrote:
- By default we will NOT propose a separate /home partition Just to restate, does that mean that /home will end up being backed by a btrfs filesystem by default? Correct, /home will be a btrfs subvolume Ok, question then: If one is installing to a previously installed machine with this setup, will the home subvolume be left intact, with all its data, and only the "system" space formatted or erased?
A common manner of installing the next release is to replace "/" and leave "/home" partition intact.
I take that a step further and mount home directories on /export/home. That's a habit from my old SunOS days. I performed a full install just yesterday on a box with five "home" partitions mounted as /export/home, /export/home1, and so on. Each home partition is about 50-TB formatted with xfs. I do the full installs on butterfly ext4 partitions, where I leave the previous version intact on its own root partition and install on the other one. This has the advantage of being able to easily access and port all the old config files and allows me to boot the old version if necessary. I did exactly this yesterday because I ran out of time. I also use NFS and autofs to cross-mount home partitions on different hosts. I reference them as /home/foo, /home/bar, etc, where foo and bar are hostnames. Using /home for the actual partition messes all of that up. There are lots of different ways to skin the cat, just make sure we have the knife, even if it might be hidden for regular users. Windows doesn't give us a knife. Regards, Lew -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org