rfc: expectations for partitioning, Fedora.next

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On 23.02.2014 03:33, Felix Miata wrote:
> On 2014-02-22 18:49 (GMT-0700) Chris Murphy composed:
> 
>>> "This crappy partioning GUI in the installer is does not give me the amount of control on partitioning desired by me."
> 
>> I don't understand this. It's the most capable GUI partitioner + OS installer I've ever encountered, and I've used quite a few installers, yet maybe I'm missing something obvious?
> 
> openSUSE? Nothing else comes close. To start with, it doesn't need even 500M 
> RAM to run. I've used it not so long ago on 384M, and seen anecdotes of 
> needing as little as 128M or 160M with swap available not so long ago. It's 
> built on the same YaST2 that's used for configuration in live installations. 
> Practically nothing is impossible in its installer GUI that's possible in its 
> live system configuration GUI. WRT GUI software selection during 
> installation, everything else is several orders of magnitude behind openSUSE. 
> I can't give full details about using its partitioner during installation, 
> because I use a proprietary partitioner to prepare all to be used in advance 
> of installation 99.6% of the time. It's easy to use to configure RAID, and to 
> select mount points and mount options, with a tree configuration that doesn't 
> confound by inexplicably repeating the same partitions under various 
> anti-sorted individual and grouped names the way Anaconda does.
> 

The YaST Partitioner:
- LVM, no comment
- MD, OK!
- BRTRFS, skinny - what is easily doable via 'btrfs-progs'

Not so advanced. ;)


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