On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:58:56AM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 20:31 +1100, Lex Hider wrote: > > Bug 150670 is almost 4 years old. > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=150670 > > > > I'd like to see if we can get agreement on changing the default > > partitioning in anaconda to separate /home & "/". > > > > I think this is vital, especially since live upgrades aren't > > "officially" supported, and many support docs recommend separating "/" & > > home, and doing a clean install when upgrading fedora versions. > > 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. I know I'll regret saying anything here, but... This has been a frequent topic over the years, and I encourage some intrepid soul to head off the inevitable flood of rehashing by summarizing a previous thread from this list's archives. List the pros and cons here and we can move on from there as needed. Eight years ago, a modest PC came with a 10-20 GB hard disk. It sure would be nice to give new users -- even though we don't specifically cater to them -- a system that will be less painful for them to reinstall later. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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