Re: default partition scheme without /home - why ?

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Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 14:19 +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote:
2008/3/10 Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxx>:
On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 13:34 +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote:
 > Is that on purpose and if it why?

 Guessing how much space you'll need in your non /home partitions over
 time is difficult.  Only you know how your install will be used.  That's
 why the installer defaults to the easiest thing to guess;  How much boot
 space you'll need, and how much swap space.  However since you know how
 your install is going to be used, you are best to make those estimations
 and setup your /home as you want it.
Fedora Live CD target audience are desktop users, right? I as a
desktop user haven't seen any need for / partiton over 8-10 GB.
Servers, and other fedora usages may need some other partition schemes
but a default home user has huge benefits from a dedicated /home
partition.

The amount has changed pretty significantly over time.  I actually set
up my machines with a separate /home and am lucky that I get new
machines pretty frequently -- otherwise, I'd be running out of space on
upgrades :-)  Also, you have to take into account disks that aren't
"huge" or people who are dual booting and don't want to dedicate 30+
gigs to Linux.  There's a bug (don't remember the # offhand) with some
discussion of what some of the proper ratios might be, but there
continues to not be closure on what is "right"

Jeremy

Why only /home ( if this path should be taken )..

I think the current setup is the right one, the experienced end user can change the partition layout if he wants to do so and the novice end users never has to worry about resizing his /home partition because Anaconda or himself configured it to small to begin with When his ( novice end user ) disk is full it's full.... It's better to give him a full cakes than to thin slices :)

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