Chuck Anderson wrote:
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 02:06:56PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
Matthew Miller wrote:
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 11:31:25AM -0500, Benjamin Kreuter wrote:
I can think of a good reason for a separate /home: upgrade paths. I
know we are getting better at it, but it can still be problematic if one
tries to install over a previous installation, and it is usually pretty
smooth to just format / while leaving /home intact.
+1
But that means you need to guess relative sizes for / and /home or offer
some understandable choices.
Not if you make it dead-easy to resize LVM partitions.
I'll believe that when I see it. If you reserve unused space that can
be used to grow either partition, you'll cause unnecessary trouble when
the artificially-small portions fill up. If you don't, you'll have to
shrink the filesystem with extra space before you can grow the full one.
However, back to guessing sizes - a developer's guess about how much
space it might take in various places to accommodate the next few fedora
releases might be better than a new user's. Also, with a fast-paced
disto like fedora, it would be nice to have a planned mechanism to make
upgrades dual-boot. That is, reserve space for an alternate / and /boot
from the beginning with everything that needs to be preserved across
upgrades in /home, then make the next version install in the reserved
spots and set up a dual-boot back to the previous. It's probably too
much to ask from the upstream apps to maintain compatibility in their
file formats, though.
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