On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 11:59 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > 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. I usually use 7GiB for / on stable, 7 GiB for / on rawhide, 2GiB for SWAP and the rest for /home. For the system these 7GiB are just enough (well, it's not enough for corner cases like when you install everything and a kitchen sink, but Desktop users usually don't need that much). I'd also say that for server stuff, people would usually create a separate /var partition, so I don't really think this is a huge issue. Just use 10GiB as a base and if you have big enough available space (say more than ~100GiB) you can start increasing until you reach some predefined maximum (I think ~30GiB would be sane). And when you have too little of space (say less than ~20 GiB), don't split by default. In short, I'd prefer to have as little as is needed for system (+ some extra for future needs; i.e. for /) and as much as possible for data (i.e. for /home and /var if either is separate). I think debian has this problem pretty much solved, is there any reason for not doing it the same way they do? Martin
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