Brendan Conoboy wrote:
Benjamin Kreuter wrote:
Perhaps we could create a new option, like "Recommended layout for
desktops," that uses a reasonable estimate of what the partition
layout should be. If a user wants to change that, they can (and they
can always "review and modify" the partition layout), and they can
always resize later if they need to. New users are often unsure of
what the partition layout is, and unfortunately, they often fail to
read the install guide.
People can always resize / later and add a /home. Every system needs a
/ but not every system needs a /home. Is there a strong technical
reason for a default /home? Would that same reason also apply toward a
separate /usr and /var and /var/tmp? Please, lets not get nostalgic for
SunOS 4 partitioning!
Most partitioning decisions are about controlling the sizes separately
or when you want to put different operations like the logging or
database files in /var and user files in /home on different physical
drives to eliminate head contention. You might want to separate both of
those from the OS files and swap, but using different partitions on the
same drive (and probably LVM) just makes the seeks take longer.
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