On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Andrew Farris <lordmorgul@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Casey Dahlin wrote: > > Jeff Spaleta wrote: > >> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 5:19 AM, Valent Turkovic > >> <valent.turkovic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >>> 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. > >>> > >> > >> HAHAHAHAHAHA! > >> > >> My wife has 10+ gigs of just digital photos, and its just vacation > >> pictures. And she's pretty much the epitome of a "desktop" user. > >> > >> I know "desktop users" with small children and digital cameras who > >> blow through 20 gigs of space in personal photos in under 6 months. > >> And then once you get into digital video you blow through 100's of > >> gigs of personal home movies in mere weeks. All of this activity has > >> become pretty common "home desktop" activity, for certain people. > >> > >> I think your concept of "desktop usage" is extremely myopic and > >> doesn't take into account the explosion of personal data that is being > >> driven by personal digital media. I'm not even talking about crap > >> like retail entertainment media that people purchase or steal. I'm > >> talking strictly about digital media that "home users" are creating > >> with the digital devices and then organizing and editting on their > >> "home desktop" computers which isn't meant for public sharing. > >> > >> -jef > >> > >> > > > > Why are all those people storing their files on the / partition? > > Shouldn't they be in /home :) > > > > > > Jef, I think you missed that Valent was talking about a / separate from > > /home > > > > --CJD > > Jef's argument still basically applies... the question is how to size each > partition, and the answer is unclear in all cases unless you are the person > intending to place the data on the drive... where the rubber meets the silicon. > > Do you make / only as big as necessary and /home everything else? Sounds > good... unless you've got a 15Gb drive and default to dropping 10Gb into / and > suddenly realize that user probably was going to operate on a MUCH smaller base > install because of limited space. This cannot be guessed, even if the drive is > small the proper proportions are very unclear. That 15Gb drive may be intended > to be filled with every package Fedora has to offer and the user only requires > 1Gb home, enough for config files and intends to keep all their data on an > external share. > > Any guess is possibly wrong. Keeping the entire install in / makes good sense > to me, and I'm one who always partitions extensively, keeping some homes intact > since RH8. > > -- > Andrew Farris <lordmorgul@xxxxxxxxx> www.lordmorgul.net > gpg 0xC99B1DF3 fingerprint CDEC 6FAD BA27 40DF 707E A2E0 F0F6 E622 C99B 1DF3 > No one now has, and no one will ever again get, the big picture. - Daniel Geer > ---- ---- The alternative would be to have an option to ask the user what percentage of their hard drive they want for what. -- Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine ( www.pembo13.com ) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
