On 2011-12-21 10:42:56 -0800 (-0800), Josh Triplett wrote: > People expect that they can use all the capacity of their disk > without having to take unusual steps like resizing partitions and > filesystems. After installing Debian on a 1TB drive, "df -h" > should say that you have just under 1TB of free space, not just a > handful of GB. [...]
Which is why I suggested that half the challenge with shifting that paradigm is education, to reset those expectations among the user base. I didn't mean to imply it would be easily accomplished... after all, there's an entire computing lifetime of momentum behind us which set the original expectation of all your disk being formatted ahead of time. It's not a change in behavior the average user is going to warm to overnight, but more user-friendly tools to manage that procedure and keep track of the situation (available space on filesystems in each logical volume versus unallocated extents in the volume group) might go a long way toward easing the transition. -- { IRL(Jeremy_Stanley); WWW(http://fungi.yuggoth.org/); PGP(43495829); WHOIS(STANL3-ARIN); SMTP(fu...@yuggoth.org); FINGER(fu...@yuggoth.org); MUD(kin...@katarsis.mudpy.org:6669); IRC(fu...@irc.yuggoth.org#ccl); } -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111221190816.gj...@yuggoth.org