On 18/11/2018 20.16, Richard Brown wrote:
On Sun, 18 Nov 2018 at 20:11, 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.
No it will not
Then I'm afraid that we must advise people to install the traditional way with a separate /home partition, not a subvolume.
We have had seamless in place upgrade via both the media-based "Upgrade" workflow and the online "zypper dup" workflow for well over a decade now
Users should be using it and should not be reinstalling from scratch. I do not think we should optimise for this edge case.
You may think so, and I do, but many people do not agree. In fact, I always install with a separate "/home" partition in order to be able to do just that: format "/" during fresh install if/when needed leaving "/home" with all my valuable data intact. I almost always upgrade instead, but if the upgrade crashes beyond repair, it is nice to have the alternative.
Like always, anyone ignoring this advice will at least be notified in the partitioning screen of the installer what is happening to their existing partitions before anything happens.
Juan Erbes was not: see his recent post. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.3 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)