One or Four?

[Jerry McAllister]

On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 08:03:39AM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Sunday 19 February 2012 04:34:17 Jerry McAllister wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 12:07:30PM +0100, Damien Fleuriot wrote:
> > 
> > So, Polytropon's three choice pattern is good.   Or, I could even
> > suggest just two choices.  
> > 
> yes, three options is ok.
> 
> >      [ ] all in one + swap
> >            Create one partition containing all subtrees
> >            plus one swap partition.
> >    
> >      [ ] user-defined
> >            Make your own partitioning selection manually.
> >            (Both number and size of partitions)
> >            with a reasonable way to specify partitions and sizes.
> >            The old Sysinstall way is not bad, but if it obsolete, 
> >            then something as easy that fits the new GPT based system.
> > 
> A normal user will use the first option here and get screwed when the file system got affected by a power failure. The second option is not an option for a general user.
> 
> > But, that middle choice that Polytropon suggested is OK to include
> > if you think it is needed.  /, /tmp, /usr, /var, [/home] +swap
> 
> Yes, I strong urge you to leave this at least as an option. 
> Just with a larger / slice of 1 or better 2GB.
> > 
> > I don't see that this plan adds any significant complication or confusion.
> > Nor does it prevent any of the schemes people have been advocating or
> > requesting.
> 
> You seem to forget normal users who just want to use the system. 
> They do not think of recovery until it actually happens.

We forgot nothing.   They can just select option 1 and then later
when something happens so learn otherwise, if they ever do, they
will have option 3 to more specifically build their system according
to their newly perceived needs.

////jerry

> 
> Erich