In data giovedì 28 gennaio 2021 21:18:19 CET, J Leslie Turriff ha scritto:
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
-- Sorry but I do not understand. You have an option (import existing partitions and mount points in expert mode. And what you choose is what you get.
And why would you choose what a default is proposing. The maker of Leap are quite obviously not the ones, with a laptop user or a desktop user as first target. That they wish to use BTRFS could be because of a lack of confidence in the consequences of updates, or just because it is different from other distributions (visibility). Aside of this I was able to see only very limited "advantages" if you don't do development and have to rollback all the time. YMMV, I use the aforementioned option "import" with EXT4 since years, never had a problem. P.S. at least there is now a choice of "extend the swap" in case of new install, so people can do suspend to disc (was not self evident either).