On Thursday 10 April 2008 06:50:13 am Michael Kirchner wrote:
Hi,
rvJJax wrote:
but you can create a home partition first, save the iso image there and do a normal install but just format the `/' one. and remap the `/home' partition after installation finish
and have fun ;)
in principle I could. If I were to rebuild Rome from the ashes. My situation is more like having a single stretch of 20GB between colosseum and forum for one building only and another 4GB outside the city.
Anyway, is there a _short_ website recommending how to chose the best partition sheme for openSUSE 10.3?
I guess not yet :-( A bit old articles: http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Partitioning_for_SuSE_Linux http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Manual_Partitioning_with_YaST2 http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Mounting,_Partitioning,_and_Configuring_File_Syst... Newer that I had no time to read: http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:An_Advanced_Discussion_on_Partitioning_a_BOOT_or_... Useful: http://en.opensuse.org/Access_Your_Windows_Files While Sam Clemens (aka Mark Twain) will argue default partitioning scheme, his ideas demand a lot of background knowledge and planing that for daily desktop and new user are a bit too much to ask. With 20G + 4 GB that installer can gain from windows you can't do much, specially because 4 GB is extended partition and that is the place where openSUSE can create many partitions. Probably the best way would be to create another 4 GB primary partition in the begin of 20 GB space and using windows, format that partition the same way current 4 GB is formatted, usually it is FAT32, and copy all files to new partition. Than you will have one block of 24 GB. Before you do that check from windows is there any files marked as non-movable. That usually show as red stripes or blocks when you try to defragment partition. If yes than forget idea to make one block. If you have to use 20 + 4 GB as it is, you can create 2 primary partitions in 20 GB block and few smaller in 4GB. The limitations of PC partitioning are described in the begin of http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Partitioning_for_SuSE_Linux . For basic Linux system it is recommended to have swap, / (root of file system) and /home partitions. Though, in your case I would skip /home and create only swap (about 1 GB) and the rest would be / . The 4 GB would serve as archive or backup space. IMHO, 4 GB is too small for root of file system, or /home . My /home is 30 GB and it is feels small. I use another 40 GB as extension where are located virtual machines. The / is 20 GB and it is 40% used, so it could be half that size, and there is a bunch of programs installed. This way I have never problems with size of /tmp as it can take up to 12 GB before system locks. It is probably the best way to use openSUSE installer proposal for now, and plan to purchase another hard disk and install openSUSE there. -- Regards, Rajko http://en.opensuse.org/Portal needs helpful hands. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org