Yast is making some absurd proposals for the root partition installing Leap 15.2. Initially, it defaults to using all of an existing 732 GB partition, with /home on that partition as well. In a guided setup, with a /home partition, it proposes 256 GB, and doesn't allow me to shrink it. Snapshots don't grow that large. Why would this be so excessive? Thanks, Jon Cosby
On 28/01/2021 17.37, Jon Cosby wrote:
Yast is making some absurd proposals for the root partition installing Leap 15.2. Initially, it defaults to using all of an existing 732 GB partition, with /home on that partition as well. In a guided setup, with a /home partition, it proposes 256 GB, and doesn't allow me to shrink it. Snapshots don't grow that large. Why would this be so excessive?
You can go to expert mode and change anything. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar)
On 2021-01-28 11:08, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 28/01/2021 17.37, Jon Cosby wrote:
Yast is making some absurd proposals for the root partition installing Leap 15.2. Initially, it defaults to using all of an existing 732 GB partition, with /home on that partition as well. In a guided setup, with a /home partition, it proposes 256 GB, and doesn't allow me to shrink it. Snapshots don't grow that large. Why would this be so excessive?
You can go to expert mode and change anything.
I normally do, but the first attempt at installing 15.2 didn't end up well, and I went with all of the defaults except in the partitioner. I thought this might be the source of the problem. Jon
On Thu, 2021-01-28 at 20:08 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 28/01/2021 17.37, Jon Cosby wrote:
Yast is making some absurd proposals for the root partition installing Leap 15.2. Initially, it defaults to using all of an existing 732 GB partition, with /home on that partition as well. In a guided setup, with a /home partition, it proposes 256 GB, and doesn't allow me to shrink it. Snapshots don't grow that large. Why would this be so excessive?
You can go to expert mode and change anything.
Choked on me when I tried that. I do not even have a swap partition. Just / and /home and now my @#$@!#$ eth0 disappeared while in use and no update and I may have to reinstall. Mine is on an ACER E5-575 with 4 gig so plenty of room. Something definitely suddenly wierd with Leap 15.2 CWSIV ____________________________________________________________ Sponsored by https://www.newser.com/?utm_source=part&utm_medium=uol&utm_campaign=rss_taglines_more GameStop Soars, but Rest of Wall Street Is Slammed http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3131/60148f23176bef222a54st03vuc1 Fauci Calls Virus Mutations a 'Wake-Up Call' http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3131/60148f233c6f8f222a54st03vuc2 FBI: DC Pipe Bombs Were Planted Night Before Riot http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3131/60148f2361ffdf222a54st03vuc3
On 1/28/21 10:37 AM, Jon Cosby wrote:
Yast is making some absurd proposals for the root partition installing Leap 15.2. Initially, it defaults to using all of an existing 732 GB partition, with /home on that partition as well. In a guided setup, with a /home partition, it proposes 256 GB, and doesn't allow me to shrink it. Snapshots don't grow that large. Why would this be so excessive?
Thanks,
Jon Cosby
Long ago and far far away, The default partitioning scheme for Yast was quite good. Then Butter-fs came along and everything changed. For two years on this list there were howls of how partitions were magically filled to capacity and the world grew dark. But all was not lost. A brave few, along with some that had used it all along, turned to "Expert Mode" partitioning and would Delete the existing proposal and start anew to build a more perfect partitioning scheme for their circumstance. And once again, there was light! -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On 2021-01-28 14:09:32 David C. Rankin wrote:
|On 1/28/21 10:37 AM, Jon Cosby wrote: |> Yast is making some absurd proposals for the root partition installing Leap |> 15.2. Initially, it defaults to using all of an existing 732 GB partition, |> with /home on that partition as well. In a guided setup, with a /home |> partition, it proposes 256 GB, and doesn't allow me to shrink it. Snapshots |> don't grow that large. Why would this be so excessive? |> |> Thanks, |> |> |> Jon Cosby | |Long ago and far far away, | | The default partitioning scheme for Yast was quite good. Then Butter-fs came |along and everything changed. For two years on this list there were howls of |how partitions were magically filled to capacity and the world grew dark. | | But all was not lost. A brave few, along with some that had used it all |along, turned to "Expert Mode" partitioning and would Delete the existing |proposal and start anew to build a more perfect partitioning scheme for their |circumstance. | | And once again, there was light! | Yep. And if you're going to reinstall over an existing partition setup, be sure to write down your current partition scheme, because even in that case, Expert Mode will not necessarily use existing partitions as a template; it usually picks one of the existing partitions for 'home' and ignores the rest.
Leslie --
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On 2021-01-28 14:09:32 David C. Rankin wrote:
|On 1/28/21 10:37 AM, Jon Cosby wrote:
|Long ago and far far away, | | The default partitioning scheme for Yast was quite good. Then Butter-fs came |along and everything changed. For two years on this list there were howls of |how partitions were magically filled to capacity and the world grew dark. | | But all was not lost. A brave few, along with some that had used it all |along, turned to "Expert Mode" partitioning and would Delete the existing |proposal and start anew to build a more perfect partitioning scheme for their |circumstance. | | And once again, there was light!
There is an entry in the partition setup, down the list, to activate some options: mount by label, default filesystem=ext4, etc.
Yep. And if you're going to reinstall over an existing partition setup, be sure to write down your current partition scheme, because even in that case, Expert Mode will not necessarily use existing partitions as a template; it usually picks one of the existing partitions for 'home' and ignores the rest.
There is an entry somewhere that reads the fstab file of a previous installation, and uses that. I never remember the wording or the exact screen and option to do it, but it is there somewhere. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCYBMyBRwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfVlAEAnRLy4s7EyDIUZ/VsCgfD dRMqMFT1AJ9qPyP8As+11U42A8CxJQ8das0rIQ== =v0MU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On 2021-01-28 15:52:05 Carlos E. R. wrote:
| |El 2021-01-28 a las 14:18 -0600, J Leslie Turriff escribió: |> On 2021-01-28 14:09:32 David C. Rankin wrote: |>> |On 1/28/21 10:37 AM, Jon Cosby wrote: | | |>> |Long ago and far far away, |>> | |>> | The default partitioning scheme for Yast was quite good. Then Butter-fs came |>> |along and everything changed. For two years on this list there were howls of |>> |how partitions were magically filled to capacity and the world grew dark. |>> | |>> | But all was not lost. A brave few, along with some that had used it all |>> |along, turned to "Expert Mode" partitioning and would Delete the existing |>> |proposal and start anew to build a more perfect partitioning scheme for their |>> |circumstance. |>> | |>> | And once again, there was light! | |There is an entry in the partition setup, down the list, to activate some |options: mount by label, default filesystem=ext4, etc. | |> Yep. And if you're going to reinstall over an existing partition |> setup, be sure to write down your current partition scheme, |> because even in that case, Expert Mode will not necessarily use |> existing partitions as a template; it usually picks one of the |> existing partitions for 'home' and ignores the rest. | |There is an entry somewhere that reads the fstab file of a previous |installation, and uses that. I never remember the wording or the exact |screen and option to do it, but it is there somewhere.
So the book say, but I've never been able to find it. Leslie --
On 29/01/2021 08.49, J Leslie Turriff wrote:
On 2021-01-28 15:52:05 Carlos E. R. wrote:
|There is an entry somewhere that reads the fstab file of a previous |installation, and uses that. I never remember the wording or the exact |screen and option to do it, but it is there somewhere.
So the book say, but I've never been able to find it.
A post from Feb 2018 by Knurpht describes the place for Leap 42.3 install: «At the point of the partitioning proposal, pick Expert ... . The detailed screen has an option "Import existing mount points". Once you click that a dialogue opens providing an option to whether or not format existing paritions. And before you ask, this is restricted to "system volumes"» -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar)
In data giovedì 28 gennaio 2021 21:18:19 CET, J Leslie Turriff ha scritto:
On 2021-01-28 14:09:32 David C. Rankin wrote:
|On 1/28/21 10:37 AM, Jon Cosby wrote: |> Yast is making some absurd proposals for the root partition installing |> Leap |> 15.2. Initially, it defaults to using all of an existing 732 GB |> partition, |> with /home on that partition as well. In a guided setup, with a /home |> partition, it proposes 256 GB, and doesn't allow me to shrink it. |> Snapshots |> don't grow that large. Why would this be so excessive? |> |> Thanks, |> |> |> Jon Cosby | |Long ago and far far away, | | The default partitioning scheme for Yast was quite good. Then Butter-fs | came> | |along and everything changed. For two years on this list there were howls |of how partitions were magically filled to capacity and the world grew |dark.> | | But all was not lost. A brave few, along with some that had used it all | |along, turned to "Expert Mode" partitioning and would Delete the existing |proposal and start anew to build a more perfect partitioning scheme for |their circumstance. | | And once again, there was light!
Yep. And if you're going to reinstall over an existing partition setup, be sure to write down your current partition scheme, because even in that case, Expert Mode will not necessarily use existing partitions as a template; it usually picks one of the existing partitions for 'home' and ignores the rest.
Leslie
-- Sorry but I do not understand. You have an option (import existing partitions and mount points in expert mode. And what you choose is what you get.
And why would you choose what a default is proposing. The maker of Leap are quite obviously not the ones, with a laptop user or a desktop user as first target. That they wish to use BTRFS could be because of a lack of confidence in the consequences of updates, or just because it is different from other distributions (visibility). Aside of this I was able to see only very limited "advantages" if you don't do development and have to rollback all the time. YMMV, I use the aforementioned option "import" with EXT4 since years, never had a problem. P.S. at least there is now a choice of "extend the swap" in case of new install, so people can do suspend to disc (was not self evident either).
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