default partition scheme without /home - why ?
Valent Turkovic
valent.turkovic at gmail.com
Mon Mar 10 21:15:18 UTC 2008
2008/3/10 Benjamin Kreuter <ben.kreuter at gmail.com>:
> On Monday 10 March 2008 09:33:12 Paul W. Frields wrote:
> >
> > Those users could read the Installation Guide, which talks about this
> > exact situation and how to set up partitions that make sense. I don't
> > think it's unreasonable to expect that new users who are going to
> > install should read the document that tells them how to do it. There's
> > not a lot we can do for people who won't read.
>
> As much as I hate to say it, I have to side with Valent on this one. It does
> make sense to have the default layout create a separate / and /home partition
> layout, especially in LVM where these can be resized later. I can't really
> take a guess at what the ratio should be, but 10-20GB for / would suffice for
> the default install (20 seems excessive, but there is no real way to tell).
>
> Perhaps we could create a new option, like "Recommended layout for desktops,"
> that uses a reasonable estimate of what the partition layout should be. If a
> user wants to change that, they can (and they can always "review and modify"
> the partition layout), and they can always resize later if they need to. New
> users are often unsure of what the partition layout is, and unfortunately,
> they often fail to read the install guide.
>
> Or perhaps we could just throw in an easy to read, unambiguous message on the
> download page, to the effect of, "New users, read this before installing."
>
> -- Benjamin Kreuter
>
>
>
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