Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Ma, 29 iun 10, 17:15:38, Joey Hess wrote: > >> The mental model that most non-beginners should have is that the system's >> root is / , which is where some system disk is mounted, and that additional >> disks are mounted to other mount points in the tree. The disk mounted at / >> is not a special case in not containing everything under / -- the disk >> mounted on /home does not necessarily contain everything under /home either. >> (I may have another (larger) disk mounted on /home/joey.) >> > > I just had a vision of the mount point selection displayed as a tree, > where one can see and move the partitions between the mount points (mc's > tree view comes to mind). The tree should be easily expandable and > collapsible, to be able to access mount points for advanced setups (like > /var/spool). Forbidden mount points (/etc, /sbin, ...) should be hidden > though. > > Let's see if I can draw something that makes sense: > > / - /dev/sda1 (9,2 GiB) > /boot > /home - /dev/sda2 (19 GiB) > |- big - /dev/sda4 (103 GB) > /tmp > /usr > /var - /dev/sda3 (9,2 GB) > |- spool > |- log > > Would something like this make sense for the installer? > I find this perfect, but it should be coupled with the impossibility of putting on two partitions the same stuff, i.e. putting /var on two partitions, for example. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. (Jonathan Swift)
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