default partition scheme without /home - why ?

Valent Turkovic valent.turkovic at gmail.com
Tue Mar 11 08:31:50 UTC 2008


Felix Miata wrote:
> On 2008/03/10 17:25 (GMT-0500) Les Mikesell apparently typed:
> 
>> Duane Clark 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.
> 
>> I'd split at around 40G, with 20 for /.
> 
> 20G is about 5 times the max usage of any of my 50 or so / partitions. I
> don't think average users with separate homes need even 10G for /, and the
> rest of the users know what they need and will custom partition regardless of
> any default proposal. Maybe add a 4th level with 80G+ disks given 20G for /.

+1




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