JBScout [Thomas Lodewick] wrote:
jdd,
that sounds all logical for me. the problem is: the pro's of the users who pref. to sperate "/home" from "/" sounds also logical for me.
to have "/home" seperate from "/" was for me the better way, because SUSE v9.3pro was my first run of a linux system, and after some re-installs I needed I found it crazy alsways to re-config apps like KDE, GNOME etc.
this show how difficult it is to accomodate anybody. I work as a teacher and use all the time computers I don't own. (school ones or students ones), so I try to keep as near as I can from defaults. The only thing I change on kde is the number of destop (I use 8 :-) and the button bar (I make i appear and disapear without delay). But I understand your point. However I had, time ago, some weird effects when going from kde (1 to 2 or 2 to 3, I don't remember). also I keep my mozilla folder always the same (so keeping config) and I notice sometimes I missed new feature don't showing because of that.
maybe it would be a "nice" idea to have some more information in YAST when it cames to the point of how to create the layout of the disk and "/". maybe a button on the left side, or a dialog that asked if the user likes to read some hints about it before the main window chanche to partition.
I re-read the "partition howto" and the "large disk howto". partitonning a disk is not easy, for example 20gb for / is probably much too big. I know a server that fill all the time its /var for apache logging frantically at some times, and for it hopefully /var is on a separate partition. the only secure way of keeping his data is _backup_ but I say this all the time and most people never back... anyway, it should be possible to add in yast 2 or three optional partition shemes. jdd -- pour m'écrire, aller sur: http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.net http://arvamip.free.fr