default partition scheme without /home - why ?
Casey Dahlin
cjdahlin at ncsu.edu
Mon Mar 10 20:45:39 UTC 2008
Andrew Farris 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.
>
Andrew Farris: Keeping some homes intact since RH8! :D
I don't know that that was Jef's argument, but I +1 it.
--CJD
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