On 06/20/2014 03:42 PM, Tony Alfrey wrote:
I let the 13.1 installer set up the partitions that it wants. It set up a 1 G swap, a 20G /root partition (with all of the potentially big files like /bin, /opt, and so on) and a 400G /home partition with just my own user directory.
This seems totally screwy. Why not a 1G swap, a 1G /boot partition with GRUB, the kernel image, the map, etc and the rest for /root?
What should it be?
I don't see what's screwy about that and I disagree about your idea of 'big' files. And please note that there is a "/root", it is under Linux root's home directory. Roots home directory is not "/" as it is with traditional UNIX. I have set up desktop UNIX on 20G drives. True, they did not have local services like Apache and logging was by syslog over udp, so there wasn't any /srv and /var/log was minimal. Printing was to a server host, not locally. Email was Thunderbird to imap so no local store. There were no other services that filled up /usr and /var. The potentially big files, once those services are out of the way, are now under /home. But lets get real about this. Why are you dealing with fixed size file systems? We have large disks these days. It is easier to buy a 500G or 1T for about $50 than to hunt down something smaller, less than 100G say. The modern file systems can all grow in size. If you are unwilling to shut down your machine and run a PartitionMagic like tool that can actually move partitions (some have doubts about PartEd) then use LVM. LVM is quite easy to use, very formulaic. Just do what the instructions say. Alternatively you can run BtrFS on your whole disk. Yes all of it. All 1T of it. Forget partitions. Yes, there are sub-volumes. See btrfs-subvolume(8) for details. They are logical divisions, not physical ones. There really is no 'one seize fits all'. I'd expect anyone installing Linux to have some idea of what the purpose is and where the space will be used. The "What should it be" will vary according to needs. Letting the default take over is like the rest of what you found when you've done that previously and complained here. You are letting someone else make decisions that you should be making. -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org