On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 11:39 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 10:58 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > > A huge +1. This is just a no-brainer for end-users, having a > > separate /home makes it massively easier to recover from all sorts of > > problems. I really don't see a downside. Except in the case where you're > > installing to a very small amount of space - there could be a simple > > heuristic which uses a single / partition when there's, say, 6GB or less > > space available. > > The biggest problem has always been coming up with the right algorithm > to decide how much / gets vs how much /home gets. Come up with a good > one and throw it at the Anaconda folks to see what sticks. I'm far too lazy, I'll just steal Mandriva's. :P MDV does this by default, so it must have an algorithm. I dunno where it is (installer code is a big hairball), so I've just asked the author. If I was doing it from scratch, though, I'd do it the way I do it manually - ask how much space everything else needs, and give /home the rest. Say, with less than 10GB of space don't split 'em, with less than 20GB give / 10GB and /home the rest, with less than 80GB give / 15GB and /home the rest, and over 80GB give / 20GB and /home the rest. Something like that, just a rough sketch. It only has to cover the most common use cases, because anyone doing stuff like running a server and needing lots of space in /var should really be doing their own partitioning in any case. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
