default partition scheme without /home - why ?

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Andrew Farris <lordmorgul at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Casey Dahlin wrote:
>  > Jeff Spaleta wrote:
>  >> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 5:19 AM, Valent Turkovic
>  >> <valent.turkovic at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >>
>  >>>  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.
>  >>>
>  >>
>  >> HAHAHAHAHAHA!
>  >>
>  >> My wife has 10+ gigs of just digital photos, and its just vacation
>  >> pictures.  And she's pretty much the epitome of a "desktop" user.
>  >>
>  >> I know "desktop users" with small children and digital cameras who
>  >> blow through 20 gigs of space in personal photos in under 6 months.
>  >> And then once you get into digital video you blow through 100's of
>  >> gigs of personal home movies in mere weeks.  All of this activity has
>  >> become pretty common "home desktop" activity, for certain people.
>  >>
>  >> I think your concept of "desktop usage" is extremely myopic and
>  >> doesn't take into account the explosion of personal data that is being
>  >> driven by personal digital media.  I'm not even talking about crap
>  >> like retail entertainment media that people purchase or steal.  I'm
>  >> talking strictly about digital media that "home users" are creating
>  >> with the digital devices and then organizing and editting on their
>  >> "home desktop" computers which isn't meant for public sharing.
>  >>
>  >> -jef
>  >>
>  >>
>  >
>  > Why are all those people storing their files on the / partition?
>  > Shouldn't they be in /home :)
>  >
>  >
>  > Jef, I think you missed that Valent was talking about a / separate from
>  > /home
>  >
>  > --CJD
>
>  Jef's argument still basically applies... the question is how to size each
>  partition, and the answer is unclear in all cases unless you are the person
>  intending to place the data on the drive... where the rubber meets the silicon.
>
>  Do you make / only as big as necessary and /home everything else?  Sounds
>  good... unless you've got a 15Gb drive and default to dropping 10Gb into / and
>  suddenly realize that user probably was going to operate on a MUCH smaller base
>  install because of limited space.  This cannot be guessed, even if the drive is
>  small the proper proportions are very unclear.  That 15Gb drive may be intended
>  to be filled with every package Fedora has to offer and the user only requires
>  1Gb home, enough for config files and intends to keep all their data on an
>  external share.
>
>  Any guess is possibly wrong.  Keeping the entire install in / makes good sense
>  to me, and I'm one who always partitions extensively, keeping some homes intact
>  since RH8.
>
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The alternative would be to have an option to ask the user what
percentage of their hard drive they want for what.


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