On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 12:42 am, in message <20050827124225.GC20886@penne>, houghi@houghi.org wrote: On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 10:24:34AM +0200, Marco Maske wrote: houghi wrote: Is there a reason that /home is not on its own partition anymore by default?
Yes, you can do that easy with Yast.
Yes, there is a reason or Yes it can be done? I am aware that it is done very easy. I just am wondering why it is not done by default. If you want to have the easiest, most friendly and simplified distribution, I think that this should be something that is inlcuded as default.
If you do not like that default setting, you will still be able to change it. On Usenet I constantly hear: How can I upgrade from versiobn X to version Y and the answer is always the same: Try an update, if it won't work, do a new install and if youu do a new install, make a /home partition. That will be easier for the next time you want to update or do a new instalation.
The fact that it can be changed easily does not mean that the defaults should be the same.
Houghi I do agree totally. The default are the ones the user sees. /home is crucial. Also /boot should be reinstated since grub has been playing up on some systems of mine with the silly 1024 limit! I cannot believe that that is still around. As a lilo user from way back I kind of gotten used to forget this 1024 limit. so /home and /boot on their own partition with /boot at the beginning of the disc (in case this is possible). After all Joe normal user has no idea what /home or /boot is and doing it for him will save lots of hazzle later. Should we open a request in bugzilla for this? Who wants to do it ... ;) beta3 x86_64 on my home machine is in excellent condition. This does not feel like a beta at all ..... What a pleasure! I am off to bed .... New Zealand is logging off for the day! Regards, Andreas openSUSE is SUPER: To help in the SUSE Performance Enhanced Release project visit http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/SUPER