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On Thu, 29 Oct 2009, Chris Lumens wrote:
Here's a patch series that ends up with creating a /home by default. The
algorithm is basically:
- VG < 50 GB: make /boot, swap, rest as /
- VG >= 50 GB: make /boot, swap, / with a 50 GB max, rest as /home
Let the arguing begin.
I like the idea of creating a /home by default, but I'm not a fan of the 50GB
number. I understand it's slightly over the current Everything install, which
makes sense, but I think about my systems:
1) Over time, your /home directory will probably contain more data than / what
with music, movies, pictures, code, saved email with eBay outbid notices,
0-day warez, video game emulators, and other things. My home directory is
27GB and / is only taking up 5.5GB.
2) /home is also a good place for people to tar up /etc, /root, and other
things if they want to do a fresh install of Fedora. At least I always use it
for that when I do a fresh Fedora install.
3) WWSD[1] and WWFD[2] tell us that / should be minimal and most available
space should go to either /export/home or /usr/home (maybe it's just /home now
on FreeBSD).
I'm also thinking of what people would be expecting during an install. If I
have a 250GB disk and 50GB is allocated to / by default, I'm going to change
that. I still want a 10GB / and the rest for /home. What are other people's
thoughts on this?
I'm in favor of a /home by default, but I'd like to see the / value lowered
from 50GB.
Some other ideas...
1) For live installs, we know the size of what's going to /, so we could use
that as the basis for sizing /, then make /boot, swap, and /home.
2) x86 may have a smaller / requirement than x86_64, should that be
considered?
3) Let's say "f the FHS" and change /home to /users.
[1] What Would Solaris Do?
[2] What Would FreeBSD Do?
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David Cantrell <dcantrell@xxxxxxxxxx>
Red Hat / Honolulu, HI
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