[CoLoCo] partitioning (after the fact...)

[Chomafin]

I think having a separate home dir is a good choice.  Everyone eventually
has computer problems, So having that in a separate partitions makes it nice
when people decide to flatten and reinstall.  It seems to be less needed in
Linux/Ubuntu, but when you have converts from a win state of mind.. that's
the first thing that happens when big issues crop up.  Having all of your
configs, and personal documents is great and makes personalization that much
easier on updates/reinstalls.  But then again, like you mention, it makes it
really hard to decide where the space is needed, in /home or /. maybe split
the difference, 50/50?

On Dec 13, 2007 4:59 PM, David L. Willson <DLWillson at thegeek.nu> wrote:

> I'll be ecstatic if you'll just get the re-sizer labeled in such a way
> that normal humans (or even I :-)) can understand what is being proposed
> without having done several installs.  Currently, it's not at all clear
> how large the Windows partition will be, how much free space it will
> have, how much free space will be carved off and given to Linux, and how
> much free space might be available in Linux after the install.  This
> frustrating lack of clear information feature was noted by both of my
> last two converts.
>
> Only-loosely-related, it would be nice if they would put the
> time-zone-names back in the time-zone-picking-thingy.  Some
> small-town-dwellers actually know what time-zone they live in, and
> having to think "Which nearby large city, that's listed in this
> pick-widget, has the same time as me?" is frustrating for them.
>
> Beyond that, I am interested to see what you think is a better default
> than one big partition, and why.  Do you really think anything but one
> big partition can work for normal people that neither have, nor want,
> any knowledge of how PCs work, AND neither have, nor want, an ongoing
> relationship with someone who does.
>
> On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 16:18 -0700, Kevin Fries wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 10:44 -0700, TC wrote:
> > > I would be very tempted to suspect that how to partition disks can
> verge
> > > on the same type of Holy War that you see when discussing distros, or
> > > bsd vs Linux.
> >
> > Yes, but the default used by Ubuntu is not a good way of doing things.
> > I have begun the conversation in the developers to see if we can try and
> > fix this.
> >
> > Its more than holy war, its about stability and disaster recovery.  The
> > one partition fits all approach is very bad in these aspects.  That is
> > why I have begun the conversation in the developers to try and get it
> > fixed for Hardy.
> >
> > I know my normal partitioning scheme will likely get labeled too extreme
> > in the end, if I can move the default used in installation to a more
> > robust system, I will feel completely victorious.
> >
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> >
>
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