default partition scheme without /home - why ?

[Paul W. Frields]

On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 14:19 +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote:
> 2008/3/10 Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com>:
> > On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 13:34 +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote:
> >  > Is that on purpose and if it why?
> >
> >  Guessing how much space you'll need in your non /home partitions over
> >  time is difficult.  Only you know how your install will be used.  That's
> >  why the installer defaults to the easiest thing to guess;  How much boot
> >  space you'll need, and how much swap space.  However since you know how
> >  your install is going to be used, you are best to make those estimations
> >  and setup your /home as you want it.
> >
> >  --
> >  Jesse Keating
> >  Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?
> 
> Fedora Live CD target audience are desktop users, right? I as a
> desktop user haven't seen any need for / partiton over 8-10 GB.
> Servers, and other fedora usages may need some other partition schemes
> but a default home user has huge benefits from a dedicated /home
> partition.
> 
> It is probable that new users aren't aware that /home partition as a
> dedicated partition has advantages and it would be best if anaconda
> makes the "smart" partition scheme in which /home is a separate
> partition in LVM volume, or a logical partition. Separate home has
> lots of advantages that you are aware of, so why not just change the
> partition scheme to take advantage of that?

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.

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