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>It's far more generic but also practically useless for an end-user. Do end-users really mess with partitioning usually (outside of formatting brand new disks

by simias 8y ago

>It's far more generic but also practically useless for an end-user. Do end-users really mess with partitioning usually (outside of formatting brand new disks I suppose)? I'm not asking rhetorically, I suppose there must be a use case if MS implemented this (tricky) feature but I can't really imagine any of my non-techies friends and relative decide to shrink a partition (actually most of them probably aren't aware of the concept of partition in the first place).

nolok 8y ago
Replacing your hard drive by a larger one, duplicate partitions and then resize them is very common in the windows end user world, including with root partition (eg replace by a ssd, or a larger ssd). There are lots of paid tools to help do that, notably the duplicate part. Now personnaly I find it weird, I would rather use the excuse to wipe and start clean if root, and for non root just making the partition you want and copy the content instead feels cleaner, but is it fairly common nonetheless. They indeed don't know the concept of partitions, but they google "replace my hard drive by a larger one" and follow a guide usually (and such guide contains link to a specific duplicate took they can buy, of course).
mehrdadn 8y ago
"End-user" is not a synonym for "layman". Are you a developer? Do you work on your laptop? Great, you're an end-user. More generally, I was trying to approximate "the set of users who aren't solely sysadmins of remote systems". Substitute for it whatever word you see fit.
- simias 8y ago
  I fully expect a developer to be able to follow the instructions given in the post then. It's not more complicated than your average framework or build system.
  - mehrdadn 8y ago
    > I fully expect a developer to be able to follow the instructions given in the post then. It's not more complicated than your average framework or build system. And I never suggested a developer would be incapable of following these. Seems like you got so sidetracked in arguing that you forgot what the discussion was actually about. See my original comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19357672 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19357672
sgc 8y ago
I recently installed ubuntu and there was no warning that the previous (many years ago) functionality of a default swap sized large enough to allow for hibernation was no longer the case. I installed using defaults without much thought because of course why wouldn't hibernation be possible using the default. Now I want to resize my partitions.

by simias 8y ago

nolok 8y ago

Replacing your hard drive by a larger one, duplicate partitions and then resize them is very common in the windows end user world, including with root partition (eg replace by a ssd, or a larger ssd). There are lots of paid tools to help do that, notably the duplicate part. Now personnaly I find it weird, I would rather use the excuse to wipe and start clean if root, and for non root just making the partition you want and copy the content instead feels cleaner, but is it fairly common nonetheless. They indeed don't know the concept of partitions, but they google "replace my hard drive by a larger one" and follow a guide usually (and such guide contains link to a specific duplicate took they can buy, of course).

mehrdadn 8y ago

"End-user" is not a synonym for "layman". Are you a developer? Do you work on your laptop? Great, you're an end-user. More generally, I was trying to approximate "the set of users who aren't solely sysadmins of remote systems". Substitute for it whatever word you see fit.

simias 8y ago
I fully expect a developer to be able to follow the instructions given in the post then. It's not more complicated than your average framework or build system.
- mehrdadn 8y ago
  > I fully expect a developer to be able to follow the instructions given in the post then. It's not more complicated than your average framework or build system. And I never suggested a developer would be incapable of following these. Seems like you got so sidetracked in arguing that you forgot what the discussion was actually about. See my original comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19357672 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19357672

sgc 8y ago

I recently installed ubuntu and there was no warning that the previous (many years ago) functionality of a default swap sized large enough to allow for hibernation was no longer the case. I installed using defaults without much thought because of course why wouldn't hibernation be possible using the default. Now I want to resize my partitions.