default partition scheme without /home - why ?

[Valent Turkovic]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 8:35 PM, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta at gmail.com> 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!

You didn't understan me. 8GB for / and the rest of hard drive in /home
partition.
Now your wife has all the space she needs... is it now more clear?

And how much does your wife has in / if you don't take in account /home folder?

>  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
>

I believe you didn't understand my initial post.
I said one partitoin for / and one for /home so there is space for
user data as long as they have big hard drives :)

Valent.



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