Re: [Vectorlinux-devel] Re: AutoPartitioning

[Tony B. <tb...@gm...>]

The filesystem without home should require no more than about 5 gig and the
rest should be given to home.  If they choose autopartitioning then they do
not need a separate /home partition.  I would leave a separate /home
partition for users that do their own partitioning and know what they are
doing.

Hell, I still use only 1 partition for all of / anyway.  Never did like the
idea of limiting either by having separate partitions.

512M swap and the rest to / - make it easy since they are also taking the
easy way out.

Regards,
Tony



On 4/27/06, uel archuletta <ue...@gm...> wrote:
>
> 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 woul=
d
> > 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
> >
> >
>