general rules for partitioning

[Matthew Miller]

On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 07:40:46PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Just in case you arent aware of it, FC3 ships with LVM enabled by 
> default which is pretty flexible if you decide to move things around 
> later. The default setup is simple enough to fit the non technical users.

Separating /home out by default is pretty good for non-technical users,
though. And using LVM (eventually, when there's nice pretty end-user tools
to manage it) will actually make it *easier* to have separate partitions,
since it makes managing various partition sizes less of an issue.

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