Hi,
Something which has bugged me for a while is this:
If one wants to add a second internal HDD for whatever purpose after openSUSE has been installed, then there is no automatic help/configurator to add it to the system. One has to discover the new hdd UUID manually and then add it to fstab with desired mountpoint and options all via the cmdline. Now this is fine, I do it all the time, but I’m thinking about others who may have the skill to put in a new HDD (it’s not that hard), but very little idea about working with the innards of the operating system.
I use a lot of distro’s and I haven’t come across one that I know of that will do something like device notifier does when an exernal HDD is plugged in/or like windows add hardware wizard. Fedora may, it had a system daemon starting with ‘K’ (stopped using fedora after version 4) that would detect new hardware and prompt you to configure it.
In my mind it would be a popup that says “New Hard Disk Drive detected” - enter root password to configure. “Would you like to add this permanently to your system?” Yes -> “Please select a folder to mount it in or create a new one now” Create new folder -> “Your new drive has now been added to /home/storagedrive (you get the picture)” and of course fstab gets updated for next boot. Obviously somewhere there you’d have the option to select what filesystem to format if you wanted to.
At the very least I would think there should be yast module to go to after installation.
BTW not sure which place is the best to post this kind of idea, if it needs to be moved to another forum then feel free.
cheers