On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 8:35 PM, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta@xxxxxxxxx> 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! You didn't understan me. 8GB for / and the rest of hard drive in /home partition. Now your wife has all the space she needs... is it now more clear? And how much does your wife has in / if you don't take in account /home folder? > 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 > I believe you didn't understand my initial post. I said one partitoin for / and one for /home so there is space for user data as long as they have big hard drives :) 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
