Irritating! Partition re-size option removed in 11.1

[tsu2]

Edit, the Subject Line should have been Irritating! Partition Re-size option removed in 11.1 to indicate that good features have been removed.


The Partitioning functionality during installation was surprising, and a welcome feature through 10.x and including 11.0...

Now, someone has gone and "improved" the install partitioning utility where

- When you edit the recommended partitioning layout, you no longer can specify start and end points. The old "Advanced" view seems to have been removed altogether.

- when you re-size a partition, the utility won't automatically ask you to "fill" the new free space with the adjacent partition.

Some really good features that have been removed! That's some progress!

And, I'm not sure what might be the utility of the new tree structure GUI... What is the point of that? I'll never support a change just for change's sake, the only time I'll support change is if there is improvement.

A very big step backwards with no benefits to compensate for lost features...

[caf4926]

I have to say. I did not enjoy the new partitioner myself either. It is supposed to be more user friendly, especially for the less adept among us. I'm not sure I agree with that. Doubtless, others will feel differently.

I guess we were used to the traditional SUSE partitioner. Which I always found excellent. I always use the Custom Partitioner and had always found it to be easy to use.

[swerdna]

Originally Posted by tsu2

Edit, the Subject Line should have been Irritating! Partition Re-size option removed in 11.1 to indicate that good features have been removed.

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[KJ44]

I don't like the new partitioner either. The tree view is bizarre, and double-clicks not obvious.

I wanted to re-use my existing partitions, overwriting / and /boot leaving /home unaffected.

I found the least scary approach was to use "create new partitions" rather than the more intuitive-sounding "edit existing partitions" and to then choose the custom partitioner.

Nerve-wracking.

[robopensuse]

The new version, does make it clearer how to use LVM having that in one place makes sense.

There's some usability nits, that would be easy to fix. When you alter a filesystem, you have to click on "Finish" rather than "Apply".

Also the "Create" v "Edit" for the install is confusing, edit actually seems to tinker with their proprosal, whilst create was actually your own proposal, in the full Partitioner tool.

I cannot see the value in the caution pop-up, it'd be much more useful to have a pointer to a guide on partitioning concepts, and guidelines for install, for those who need some explanations.

[danielferber]

Originally Posted by tsu2

- when you re-size a partition, the utility won't automatically ask you to "fill" the new free space with the adjacent partition.

I agree, not having this feature is really silly.

Also, I would appreciate much being able to configure swap size. I wonder that on a 2GB desktop I need a >2GB swap, so I would like to reduce this value. However, resizing the suggested swat partition will leave unallocated space that is not used by any other partition. I have to delete all following partitions and add them back again to reuse this space.

[robopensuse]

How would Resume from Hibernate work reliably, if you have less swap space than your RAM size available to record RAM contents?

Disks are huge, and the proportion you need to set aside to swap space if only a few % of the likely total size.

If you are short of space, take a look at the Wester Digital Green Power 1TB EADS disk with cache, a good performer, inexpensive and with low power consumption and noise.