On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 4:52 am, in message <43109A68.8030301@dodin.org>, jdd@dodin.org wrote: JBScout [Thomas Lodewick] wrote:
Should we open a request in bugzilla for this? Who wants to do it ...
please, don't.
using a special partiton for home will immediatly get you in troubles if you use more than one Linux on the same computer (and with the same /home).
Since having muliple Linuxes is a special requirement only quite knowledeable people have,I would assume that such a person would be able to kilcik into the partitioner and choose his/her own partition too. The default setting should be thought for a normal user and such a user would be pretty stuffed without precautions on seperating /home from the rest of the system, IMHO. Such a user is probably not going to be very familiar with partitioning concepts.
You must be more tricky. see http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/Install_Another_Distribution
Only for geeks! And those can partition how they want!
the main part being:
* it's also very useful (but not mandatory) to have a data partition to receive all your own data. _not your home, only your important data_.
the fact is /home/login is hosting config data for nearly all the apps you use and these configs can be different from a version to an other (think going from kernel 2.4 to 2.6).
So apps _datas_ should be on a separate partition, mounted anywhere and _linked_ to each separate home as needed.
this is very handy but very difficult to teach to a newcommer.
A solution (?) should be to create /home normally but adding a data partition (ideally on an other drive) linke to ~/Documents, for example
part of my home (see the links): beta drwxr- xr- x 2 jdd users 1408 2005- 08- 26 07:57 bin lrwxrwxrwx 1 jdd users 12 2005- 08- 15 14:35 data - > /data3/data/ drwx------ 2 jdd users 336 2005- 08- 26 20:28 Desktop drwxr- xr- x 5 jdd users 800 2005- 08- 27 14:00 Documents lrwxrwxrwx 1 jdd users 16 2005- 08- 15 14:36 download - > /data3/download/ drwxr- xr- x 4 jdd users 96 2005- 08- 26 20:24 GNUstep lrwxrwxrwx 1 jdd users 15 2005- 08- 15 14:35 gravure - > /data3/gravure/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 jdd users 12 2005- 08- 20 14:51 lycee - > /data3/lycee lrwxrwxrwx 1 jdd users 15 2005- 08- 15 14:36 photos2 - > /data3/photos2/ drwxr- xr- x 2 jdd users 80 2005- 08- 14 22:48 public_html drwxr- xr- x 5 jdd users 192 2005- 08- 27 12:21 temp - rw- r-- r-- 1 root root 0 2005- 08- 20 20:06 test3 lrwxrwxrwx 1 jdd users 15 2005- 08- 15 14:35 valerie - > /data3/valerie/
If I'm not clear enough, I can get details.
I actually think this is a completely unvowrkable situation for a newcomer ..... really let's be serious ... Regards, Andreas openSUSE is SUPER: To help in the SUSE Performance Enhanced Release project visit http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/SUPER