default partition scheme without /home - why ?
"Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"
johannbg at hi.is
Mon Mar 10 15:12:04 UTC 2008
Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote:
> 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 :)
>
/cakes/cake(s)...
cakes for more then one HD...
> Best regards.
> Johann B.
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