https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=383886 User mge@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=383886#c9 Matthias Eckermann <mge@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |suse-beta@cboltz.de --- Comment #9 from Matthias Eckermann <mge@novell.com> 2008-05-06 20:56:51 MST --- Hello and thanks for the answers. Please see my comments below.? (In reply to comment #8 from Sebastian Furdal)
(1) about leaving space for windows or other OSes? (1)(1)does the idea of „automatic partitioning” is to make monopoly in one OS on one computer? [sarcasm]
I agree: I have at least 3 openSUSE/SLES systems on my systems, and every fresh installation tries to kill my "vg_data". This is just annoying and will be fixed.
(2) or about _how_ the Linux partitioning should look like? (2)(2)Yes, its only a proposal, more details I can make in some free time.
I also have some ideas there, ...
(4)(4)but openSUSE is mostly installed by less advanced users, who mostly do not know anything about Servers
Well, that does not necessarily be true according to other requests I see:-) But I agree that the "less advanced users" have to be covered in the most save way.
[...] This is something that makes openSUSE behind almost all major GNU/Linux distributions. [...]
Well, you might simply avoid those type of comments, please, as it weakens your very valid points above and below ( because people might become angry ).
(6)(6)Propose: [...]
Instead of your proposal let me post a proposal I wrote roughly 2 years ago here in bugzilla (closed bug); in meta-programming-language (and covering also datacenter use e.g. of SLES product): if( SAN-storage-found ) { expert-partitioning(); } else if( num-of-harddisks > 1 ) { expert-partitioning(); } else if( only-one-windows-partition_on( first_harddisk ) ) { # case 2 below partitioning-with-shrink( first_harddisk ) | expert-partitioning(); } else if( some-partitions-but-free-space_on( first_harddisk ) ){ # case 3 below partitioning-without-shrink-or-delete_on (first_harddisk ) | expert-partitioning(); } else if( some-partitions-but-no-free-space_on( first_harddisk ) ) { expert-partitioning(); } else if( multiple-existing-OSes-found ){ expert-partitioning(); } else { # empty harddisk, case 1 below default-partitioning(); } I would like to see that a little bit less complex, but I hope it could be a good start; I also hope we can agree that there are only three relatively "safe" & easy cases: 1. one empty harddisk 2. one harddisk full with another OS (most probably windows) 3. (at least) one (bigger) empty primary partition on first harddisk Everything else needs "knowledge" by the person in front of the computer, i.e. an "expert partitioner" YaST module to support this person, HTH - MgE -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.