Re: [Vectorlinux-devel] Re: AutoPartitioning

[Sriram D. <sri...@gm...>]

having a seperate home partition has helped me a lot in upgrading from
previous versions of VL .   If we want to encourage users to upgrade to the
newest VL next year and later .. with least effort on their part..
We can make it easy and fairly automatic to upgrade by keeping their home
partition independent. during a new install. Also i think it is much easier
to backup a seperate partition as opposed to a part of a big one. not sure
though

As for the dev option, i really like the idea. so now when people install V=
L
if the see the "setup my machien for vectelopment"  option , it might well
encourage them to read up on vectelopment and may be becoem devs / testers =
/
packager etc...
really good idea:) ;
cheers
ram






On 4/27/06, Tony Brijeski < tb...@gm...> wrote:
>
> 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 t=
hey
> 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
> > > would make them do that themselves and put their data loss in their h=
ands.
> > >
> > > 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 spac=
e
> > > available, minimum safe size for /, and so on
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Uel Archuletta
> > >
> > >
> >
>