default partition scheme without /home - why ?
Chris Snook
csnook at redhat.com
Mon Mar 10 22:36:11 UTC 2008
Valent Turkovic wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Brendan Conoboy wrote:
>> > Benjamin Kreuter wrote:
>> >> 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.
>> >
>> > People can always resize / later and add a /home. Every system needs a
>> > / but not every system needs a /home. Is there a strong technical
>> > reason for a default /home? Would that same reason also apply toward a
>> > separate /usr and /var and /var/tmp? Please, lets not get nostalgic for
>> > SunOS 4 partitioning!
>>
>> Most partitioning decisions are about controlling the sizes separately
>> or when you want to put different operations like the logging or
>> database files in /var and user files in /home on different physical
>> drives to eliminate head contention. You might want to separate both of
>> those from the OS files and swap, but using different partitions on the
>> same drive (and probably LVM) just makes the seeks take longer.
>>
>> --
>> Les Mikesell
>> lesmikesell at gmail.com
>>
>
> I saw few times that some users put too much stuff in their home
> folder and fill their HDD until there was 0 free space, and their
> machines didn't boot after that - separate /home fixes that.
>
> I'm talking about Live CD and desktop users.
>
> Valent.
>
For the purpose of the initscripts, simply increasing the reserved
blocks percentage will fix this, but I promise you that will piss off a
lot of people. This doesn't help your target user anyway, since
Gnome/KDE will be very unhappy when /home is full.
-- Chris
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