Libstorage-NG Landing Soon In openSUSE Tumbleweed For Improving The Installer

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Libstorage-NG Landing Soon In openSUSE Tumbleweed For Improving The Installer

Users of the openSUSE rolling-release Linux distribution will soon find an improved installer thanks to Libstorage-NG landing soon and improvements to YaST...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Libstorage-NG-YaST-SUSE-Soon

[theghost]

Can't believe this bug is still not fixed: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=966870
On every other user-friendly distribution the installer uses the maximun size for home as default size
Maybe libstorage-ng will fix this.

[rtfazeberdee]

Can't believe this bug is still not fixed: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=966870
On every other user-friendly distribution the installer uses the maximun size for home as default size
Maybe libstorage-ng will fix this.

why not add a comment to the bug and ask if libstorage-ng will fix it.

[starshipeleven]

Btrfs multi-device support, BCache SSD/HDD caching

yissss!!!

[Kavalor]

Can't believe this bug is still not fixed: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=966870
On every other user-friendly distribution the installer uses the maximun size for home as default size
Maybe libstorage-ng will fix this.

It normaly does , this is just a spcific issue when you are running LUKS encrypted volumes. I have never run into it

[q2dg]

Reinventing the wheel as usual... Fedora already has blivet (https://github.com/storaged-project/blivet)

[andyprough]

Can't believe this bug is still not fixed: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=966870
On every other user-friendly distribution the installer uses the maximun size for home as default size
Maybe libstorage-ng will fix this.

Default settings are not bugs. They are just default settings, and can obviously be changed quite easily by the user. If you set the default root partition size at 50GB for LUKS+LVM encrypted, then you would have bug reports claiming that the default was too large.

[szymon_g]

why bother with btrfs?

[starshipeleven]

why bother with btrfs?

because it's cool.

[theghost]

Default settings are not bugs. They are just default settings, and can obviously be changed quite easily by the user. If you set the default root partition size at 50GB for LUKS+LVM encrypted, then you would have bug reports claiming that the default was too large.

Depends. I don't know if you used OpenSuse's installer before.
In this case it's a bug.
The installer offers an option where the installer automatically setups the partioning and an option where the user manually determines the partition layout.
As the first option is clearly for inexperienced users, that don't want to mess with manual partioninig, it would be good if /home uses the maximun available size of the hdd.
At the moment only a few gbs are used and the rest stays free. Yes, it only happens with LUKS but nevertheless it's a usability bug, as no one, who uses the automatic install option wants to resize /home after installation.
But what do I know. Maybe people like bad usability.