On 22 March 2014 17:23, lee lee@yun.yagibdah.de wrote:
Let`s say you install to a software RAID-1 --- which is minimum requirement for anything to put data on --- made from two disks, with encrypted partitions (as usual /, /usr, /home, /tmp, /var, /usr/local, and a swap partition). You want to have these partitions in a particular order on the disks, i. e. swap at the beginning because chances are it`s faster, then /usr, /var, /tmp, /usr/local and /home, in that order.
That`s nothing complicated, either, and I don`t think that`s possible with Fedoras installer. Or is it? And if it is, how long does it take to do the partitioning?
[Blinks]
Wow. Now, y'see, that's something I'd consider wildly exotic and weird. I haven't put /usr on a separate partition since the 1980s when I was trying to build 20-user systems with 20-40MB hard disks.
I never separate out /tmp or /var or /usr/local - I only ever use / and /home basically. I might split off /var on a server but I'd need a remarkably persuasive use case, and on servers, I use extra-stable distros without GUIs, not something like Fedora.
But this just illustrates the breadth of scenarios a successful installer must cope with!