On 2021-01-28 14:09:32 David C. Rankin wrote:
|On 1/28/21 10:37 AM, Jon Cosby wrote: |> Yast is making some absurd proposals for the root partition installing Leap |> 15.2. Initially, it defaults to using all of an existing 732 GB partition, |> with /home on that partition as well. In a guided setup, with a /home |> partition, it proposes 256 GB, and doesn't allow me to shrink it. Snapshots |> don't grow that large. Why would this be so excessive? |> |> Thanks, |> |> |> Jon Cosby | |Long ago and far far away, | | The default partitioning scheme for Yast was quite good. Then Butter-fs came |along and everything changed. For two years on this list there were howls of |how partitions were magically filled to capacity and the world grew dark. | | But all was not lost. A brave few, along with some that had used it all |along, turned to "Expert Mode" partitioning and would Delete the existing |proposal and start anew to build a more perfect partitioning scheme for their |circumstance. | | And once again, there was light! | Yep. And if you're going to reinstall over an existing partition setup, be sure to write down your current partition scheme, because even in that case, Expert Mode will not necessarily use existing partitions as a template; it usually picks one of the existing partitions for 'home' and ignores the rest.
Leslie --