On 06/20/2014 04:34 PM, Tony Alfrey wrote:
If I just define a bootable /boot partition and / partition, will the installer know what to put in each?
Yes. But we constantly advise people to use a separate /home partition so that you can eave it out of the upgrade. You may want. For example/home, /srv, /local to be unchanged across upgrades. Often it is easier to install than upgrade and so format the / and /usr, so you want /home and /srv and /local left out of this. I don't know why people make a big issue of LVM. Its actually simple, about as complicated as making use of an extended partition in the way-back-when days if the very basic partition table with only the 4 slots :-/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_partitioning#mediaviewer/File:Harddrive-p... That being said, I have no argument with Felix on the matter of how he handles backups. I like being able to snapshot and doing a disk-to-disk-to-DVD. My 'partitions' are all under 5G so that they can fit on a DVD :-) So long as you make use of the directory hierarchy its easy to set up a new partition and move stuff over as one part of your file system grows. The real issue becomes this: with 1T SATA drives at around $50, how many SATA ports are there on your mobo? -- Information is the currency of democracy. --Thomas Jefferson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org