2008/3/10 "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" <johannbg@xxxxx>: > > 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 I have the complete opposite view than yours. There should be a better default configuration with /home partition that works for most novices and expert users can customize is because they actually understand what needs to be done unlike novice users. > 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 :) If the partition is under 8GB then it would be better to have only one partition, but for anything beyond that there should be an 8GB / and all spare space allocated as /home partition. This is only a first thought that could off course be refined but IMO much better than only one / partition. Valent. -- http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/ linux, blog, anime, spirituality, windsurf, wireless registered as user #367004 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org. ICQ: 2125241, Skype: valent.turkovic -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
