On Thu, September 13, 2012 12:04 pm, lee wrote: > "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.
In the majority of cases, they won't, having bought an OEM installed box, where the manufacturer has kept the price down with a minimum of hardware. 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? Why do you create scenarios that are overly complex? There are many questions in this world. Regards, Weaver -- "It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government." -- Thomas Paine -- 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/b7493d9034fe984bdd6c117bcd99aa50.squir...@fulvetta.riseup.net