On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 04:26:51PM +0200, nordi wrote:
I do agree totally. The default are the ones the user sees. /home is crucial. The question here is: How big should the /home partition be? Sounds
Andreas Girardet wrote: trivial, but there is no 100% solution that will fit all the needs. For some users, a 10GB /home may be much too small. For me, 1GB would be absolutely enough, since I store the remaining gigabytes on my windows partition anyway, so I can also easily access my data with windows.
Whatever automatic setup you choose, there will always be some people complaining because it does not fit their needs! IMHO _not_ creating a special /home seems to be the best compromise that will create the least problems.
It creates the least problems on the initial instalation. It however creates more problems when people want to upgrade to a new version. Advanced users can easily do this by themselves and can change the settings as they like. I am thinking about people who have no clue and want to try out Linux. They try out SUSE 9.3 with a netinstall and like it so much they decide to buy 10.1. That means they are working already for one year with that system andnow they need to decide. Delete all their files and install a new version, risk loosing the data while resizing or just curse at Novell for not having tought about this. To compare: In the Windows world, this is done as well. There a partition will be called a drive, but most people I know will put their data on D:. The reason is that they still have their data when reinstalling. because you are experience, you already know that you need to put your data somewhere else (in your case the Windows partition). An unexpreinced user will have no clue. Even if the choice will not fit all, it will fit more people then now where with a new instalation data will be lost. (OK we know how to get past this, but not all people will know that. SOme just want to work on their PC) -- houghi http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/Making_a_DVD_from_CDs