Valent Turkovic wrote:
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: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. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxxI saw few times that some users put too much stuff in their home folder and fill their HDD until there was 0 free space, and their machines didn't boot after that - separate /home fixes that. I'm talking about Live CD and desktop users. Valent.
For the purpose of the initscripts, simply increasing the reserved blocks percentage will fix this, but I promise you that will piss off a lot of people. This doesn't help your target user anyway, since Gnome/KDE will be very unhappy when /home is full.
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