default partition scheme without /home - why ?

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

Jeremy Katz wrote:
> 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.
>>>       
>> 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.
>>     
>
> The amount has changed pretty significantly over time.  I actually set
> up my machines with a separate /home and am lucky that I get new
> machines pretty frequently -- otherwise, I'd be running out of space on
> upgrades :-)  Also, you have to take into account disks that aren't
> "huge" or people who are dual booting and don't want to dedicate 30+
> gigs to Linux.  There's a bug (don't remember the # offhand) with some
> discussion of what some of the proper ratios might be, but there
> continues to not be closure on what is "right"
>
> Jeremy
>
>   
Why only /home ( if this path should be taken )..

I think the current setup is the right one, the experienced end user can 
change the
partition layout if he wants to do so and the novice end users never has 
to worry about
resizing his /home partition because Anaconda or himself configured it 
to small to begin with
When his ( novice end user ) disk is full it's full.... It's better to 
give him a full cakes than to thin slices :)

Best regards.
                 Johann B.
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