default partition scheme without /home - why ?

[Valent Turkovic]

Duane Clark wrote:
> Valent Turkovic wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 11:02 PM, Duane Clark <fpga at pacbell.net> wrote:
>>> 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).
>>
>> I have a lot, really a lot of applications installed and here is my df -h
>> /dev/sda6             7,4G  6,1G  1,3G  83% /
>>
>> I'm talking about live cd + lots of additional software.
>>
>> What did you do? Install everything from DVD and then go to town on
>> fedora repos? :)
> 
> No, I'm referring to non-fedora software. Some of it is commercial, like 
> Matlab and VHDL simulators. But there is quite a lot of free software 
> engineering software available, typically used by engineering students, 
> that can take up a couple of GBs per app.
> 
> For example, take a look at the free single file download here:
> http://www.xilinx.com/support/download/i92linwp.htm
> A whopping 1.7GB.
> 

 From few non-free apps I installed I saw that there is usually the 
option to install it to /opt or /home/user/bin directories, right?

I guess that students using this software know this and so make /opt and 
  /home a separate partitions with enough space for their non-free apps.

Valent.