Hello Carlos, I am quite astonished what a reaction has been triggered by my writing. To comment what Carlos has been saying: I usually have a partition setup with /boot, / and /home as separate partitions. Because / does not change significantly there is IMHO no real need for it to be that large, 50 GByte - 100 GByte should be more than sufficient. If that is inappropriate with btrfs - well, I'd say again, then this fs is not appropriate for the things a normal user would do. In my mind 50 GByte - 100 GByte are more than enough for a root file system, where usually nothing happens but a little writing to and from /tmp and /var/tmp. "The music plays" in /home, what I'd make as big as possible. And, +1 for the comments of Carlos with regard to btrfsck - if using it breaks the file system, then it should nor be distributed neither installed. A regular approach is to check a filesystem with XXXfsck, and it is the very responsibility of that tool to not destroy anything and to guide you through problems if problems are found. At the end of the das I would like to rise the question again: "btrfs has new and interesting features". Well, for whom? Am I offered a car with 5 rather than 4 wheels now? Does this help me getting better from location A to location B? I would expect that distribution maintainers are very very careful when it comes to changing the basic basic infrastructure of a system - and, in this case I see no good reason for this to be done. Something new is not neccessarily good, newness is no positive attribute as such, and when the only _siginificant_*) difference can be reduced to "because it is new", then there is no sense in the switch - IMHO, as always. And, something old in turn is not neccessarily bad simply because it is old. The most reliable elements in a linux systems are the tools like "dd", "tar", "ls" and so on and so forth. Take care Dieter Jurzitza *) if you have a speed limit of 60 MPh, what is the benefit from driving a Porsche compared to a Golf? If the answer can be reduced to "the knowledge that it is a Porsche" then there is no rationality in using the latter. -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Dr.-Ing. Dieter Jurzitza 76131 Karlsruhe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org