"Weaver" <wea...@riseup.net> writes: > On Thu, September 13, 2012 12:29 am, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> On Mi, 12 sep 12, 17:53:41, Weaver wrote: >>> >>> I would be an advocate of at least a separate /home partition in the >>> 'Newbie Install'. >> >> How big? IMVHO a separate /home partition[1] makes sense now[2] only if >> one can make reasonable guesses about future use. I got it wrong several >> times and so have many others. > > That depends on the size of the drive. > > I make a / partition, a swap that is twice the size of RAM - on this box, > 4 GB, and the rest is just assigned to home. > > That way the drive size is the only limiting factor. > > If you find, in time, that you are running out of drive space, instaal a > bigger drive, install the / and swap and again, allocate the rest as /home > and copy it over. > > By that time, this would be a good project for the not-so-newbie. > Regards,
What do you do, or what is the installer supposed to do, when you have several disks? Make a RAID-0 out of them and do as you describe? Make a RAID-1 or RAID-10 or RAID-5? Only use one disk? Put / and everything else on one disk and use the other(s) (one) for /home? I can see you saying that your clueless user doesn't have more than one disk. What about the clueless user who scraped together their computer over time from old or cheap parts they were able to acquire, so they have a couple of old SCSI and IDE disks between 16, 36 and 100GB in size. They've got an OS they want to keep on the 100GB IDE disk, which is partitioned (someone else did it and they don't know how to change that), some data on the others, all partitions between 60--90% full with non-removable stuff, and now they want to try out Debian. They are in the installer and expect it to install without partitioning manually. What's the installer supposed to do or to offer them? -- Debian testing amd64 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87ipbhrbg7....@yun.yagibdah.de
