On Thursday 16 March 2006 14:54, Pascal Bleser wrote:
Silviu Marin-Caea wrote: ...
I use one large partition for everything.
Whenever I reinstall (every SUSE alpha/beta):
- I mount the partition during installation ([Ctrl+Alt+F2] gives me a console 2. delete everything except /home2 (where I keep my data)
wtf is /home2 supposed to be ? ;)
/home2 is a subdirectory, not a partition. I keep my data there because I recreate my profile (/home) with each installation, so I start testing with a clean slate. Helps at bug reporting.
I don't agree at all. Having /home on its own partition is very often a lifesaver. You could even wipe the root partition and reinstall something from scratch and you'd still have your data.
I was describing the exact same thing. You didn't quite read to the end :-) Your "wiping tool" is mkfs, mine is "rm --interactive --recursive /mnt". Just answer "no" when prompted about /home2 My method does not waste space and does not create any complications.
Also, to me, LVM is part of the perfect setup, but we've had that discussion already a few months ago.
How often do I see people in IRC asking for a way to add disk space to their Linux partition. Well, if it hasn't been virtualized with LVM in the first place
Well, if all they had was one large partition, there would be no such question. Simple solves it. However, everyone stubbornly wants more partitions. So they can shoot themselves in foot later and spend more time on resizing stuff.