default partition scheme without /home - why ?

[Duane Clark]

Felix Miata wrote:
> 
> 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
> 

I would go way beyond that. Don't users install additional applications? 
I have more than 30GB of applications installed, though I will admit 
that is probably far from typical. I think for under 80GB of space, it 
should be a single partition. Over that, if you are going to go for this 
crazy scheme ;), make / at least 20G.

However, as a user, I can say that I will always use a single partition 
(as I have been doing since my HPUX and Solaris days).