default partition scheme without /home - why ?

Chuck Anderson cra at WPI.EDU
Mon Mar 10 19:07:50 UTC 2008


On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 02:06:56PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Matthew Miller wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 11:31:25AM -0500, Benjamin Kreuter wrote:
>>> I can think of a good reason for a separate /home:  upgrade paths.  I 
>>> know we are getting better at it, but it can still be problematic if one 
>>> tries to install over a previous installation, and it is usually pretty 
>>> smooth to just format / while leaving /home intact.
>>
>> +1
>
> But that means you need to guess relative sizes for / and /home or offer 
> some understandable choices.

Not if you make it dead-easy to resize LVM partitions.




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