On Wed, 2008-12-24 at 13:25 +0100, Clayton wrote:
Why has the Partioner been changed to make it so hard to adjust partition sizes? In previous versions of OpenSUSE, when creating a partition, it was easy to see and modify the partition size or start/end cylinders. Now, it appears you have to create a partition and if you want to change it, you have to delete and then recreate it. Even if you specify start/stop cylinders, you can't later see how many there are. Why are we supposed to operate blind in this area? We shouldn't have to guess or use trial & error to get the desired partition sizes.
The old story James. They had to make it better !! Surprised me also when I went to install 11.1. Took me half an hour to figure out the expert partitoning which used to be so intuitive, while muttering to myself, "why did they do that?"
Phew, it isn't just me. At first glance it looks nice, but then you try to adjust things and it becomes an exercise in counting how many clicks it takes not to edit and resize a partition. :-(
Maybe time to gather some feedback and open a bug report? Does anyone else agree that the new partitioner needs some rethinking? Well, the good thing is that one can define nfs-mountpoint....
otoh, try to define 8 mountpoint, using LVM in ncurses.... Too many times hitting the (shift)tab-key One major advantage would be if the short-cut-keys (alt-something) would be identical in yast and yast2 (not only here) hw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org