Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 17:26 +0200, Joel Andres Granados wrote:
Found that this issue was not resolved yet for fc7. Personally I would
leave the default as it is (100MB->/boot,XXXMB->swap and the resto for
/) but the bug discussion does have some details that should be avoided
(The issue with the newbie realizing that it would be better to separate
the home and OS way after he has finished the installation.)
To suggest a solution I would do something like (100MB->boot---
XXXMB->swap---10GB->/ --- the rest for /home :) but thats just me....
I tested it in kickstart and gui installs, everything seems to be fine.
The problem is "is 10 gigs enough?" And on multilib platforms, it only
IMO it really depends what you are doing with the box. I have an old
laptop that is more than happy with 10G of /. of course more than once
I have reached the limit but nothing that an "apt-get clean" cant solve
(I have also had to uninstall some unused packages, but thats another
issue).
barely is today. Which means that as someone upgrades and wants to add
more software, it's not going to be anymore.
If we had online shrinking of ext3 filesystems, it'd be a little easier
as the theoretical future tool for disk handling could do a resize when
you need it. But right now, it just leads to user pain.
I agree with you.
Jeremy
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I don't see any problem in adding another 10Gigs to the ceiling of the /
partition. With the size of current harddrives I don't think thats an
issue. So ending up with (100MB->boot---XXXMB->swap---20G(max)->
/---The rest for /home). I use 20G based on the reply that stated that
fc5 ate up 21G. I really doubt that the beginner will install ALL the
packages. The 20G / is not for installing all the packages anyway, but
to allow the beginner to add some other nifty applications once he gets
use to the operating system (Assuming that the user would choose the
default package list is also reasonable given that he has chosen the
default partition scheme). Its also useful to keep the home partition
(user's stuff) from disappearing whenever the user wants to reinstall or
something.
IMHO the separation of / and /home with 20G for / and the rest for /home
accomplishes the two objective that it is meant for:
1. Provide the possibility of growth in /
2. separate user info from os stuff so that it is "protected" in
reinstall, upgrade and other situations where the / needs to change.
The diff is attached.
regards
--- installclass.py-11.2.0.40 2007-03-29 13:17:57.000000000 +0200
+++ installclass.py 2007-03-29 13:18:56.000000000 +0200
@@ -421,7 +421,7 @@
def setDefaultPartitioning(self, partitions, clear = CLEARPART_TYPE_LINUX,
doClear = 1, useLVM = True):
- autorequests = [ ("/", None, 1024, None, 1, 1, 1) ]
+ autorequests = [ ("/", None, 1024, 20240, 1, 1, 1) ]
bootreq = getAutopartitionBoot()
if bootreq:
@@ -429,6 +429,7 @@
(minswap, maxswap) = iutil.swapSuggestion()
autorequests.append((None, "swap", minswap, maxswap, 1, 1, 1))
+ autorequests.append(("/home", None, 1024, None,1,1,1 ))
if doClear:
partitions.autoClearPartType = clear
