[Vectorlinux-devel] Re: AutoPartitioning

[uel a. <ue...@gm...>]

Well I have been thinking more about this, and I have come to the opinion
that if the user doesnt want to partition then a seperate /home is really
not needed.

I thought at first we could do something like this
if HD <=3D 5gigs then split 512mb swap 80% remaining to / and then 20% to
/home
if HD > 5gigs then 512mb swap  and ??% remaining to / and then ??% to /home

But then I thought Is it worth the problems it may cause or the effort to
code a solution?

what do you all think?

thanks,
Uel

On 4/25/06, uel archuletta <ue...@gm...> wrote:
>
> As most everyone by now knows We are working on a new installer.
> One of the new features we would like to add is the ability to
> autopartition.
> If anyone has any suggestions or can contribute code it would be
> appreciated.
> We have at least 2 scenarios to work from.
> 1 being take over HD and use whole thing
> 2 Use free space on HD
> We thought if user wants to use free space on windows partition we would
> make them do that themselves and put their data loss in their hands.
>
> Our objective as we see it so far is: how to calculate the space to
> allocate for / /home and swapspace taking into account amount of space
> available, minimum safe size for /, and so on
>
> Thanks,
> Uel Archuletta
>
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