On Tue, 4 Sep 2018 at 17:37, Dave Howorth <dave@howorth.org.uk> wrote:
On Tue, 4 Sep 2018 15:50:51 +0200 Richard Brown <RBrownCCB@opensuse.org> wrote:
Looking briefly at the thread it seems obvious to me that the user in question had a number of problems
1- an old installation with an old btrfs layout - modern btrfs installations have /var as a single subvolume.
I have an 'old' installation too - that is an installation that has been upgraded rather than freshly installed. Are you saying that is a 'problem'. If so, why does openSUSE offer it? Why does it not offer to convert it to the 'modern' installation?
Because we dont mess around with users data once it's written to disk. Users should be considered responsible for their own data, and we shouldn't go moving it around and putting it at risk as a result
2- a disk too small for their use - 40GB should be fine for many users, but that is just a default. After all anyone storing anything in /var, such as logs, is going to be 'robbing' space otherwise useful for snapshots
My root is 41G as well. openSUSE chose to put /var on that device, not me, and I use it to store logs and whatever else goes into /var because that's how openSUSE set it up.
openSUSE is not magic, and despite advances in artificial intelligence I believe it will still be a few decades before YaST achieves sentience and openSUSE can 'chose' anything for you. openSUSE's installation workflow shows you the partitioning clearly as part of its installation routine https://openqa.opensuse.org/tests/747376#step/partitioning/1 It provides 2 ways for you to alter such a proposal, either using the simple Guided Setup or the more complex Expert Partitioner You chose to accept what was presented to you. Whether it is right or wrong, all credit or scorn for that decision belongs to you, and not openSUSE. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org