default partition scheme without /home - why ?

[Valent Turkovic]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 10:29 PM, Felix Miata <mrmazda at ij.net> wrote:
> On 2008/03/10 22:14 (GMT+0100) Valent Turkovic apparently typed:
>
>
>  > If the partition is under 8GB then it would be better to have only one
>  > partition, but for anything beyond that there should be an 8GB / and
>  > all spare space allocated as /home partition.
>
>  > This is only a first thought that could off course be refined but IMO
>  > much better than only one / partition.
>
>  I think most users of disks more than a little under 20G would ultimately be
>  unhappy with that. I think I'd skip separate /home if HD size less than 19G.
>  So, something like this:
>
>  less than 19G -> up to 1G swap, balance /
>  19G-35G -> 8G /, up to 2G swap, balance /home
>  more than 35G -> 12G /, up to 4G swap, balance /home
>
>  Related:
>  In all cases where doz already is installed and is not already consuming 3
>  primaries, I would create a separate /boot of 75M-200M on a primary so that
>  standard MBR code could be retained. Optionally, put / on a primary. Either
>  way allows easiest possible restore of Linux bootability after doz gets
>  reinstalled.

This is much better partition logic than mine, but I knew that it
would my idea would bet the ball rolling in the right direction.

Valent.


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