On 2008/03/10 17:25 (GMT-0500) Les Mikesell apparently typed: > Duane Clark wrote: >> Felix Miata wrote: >>> I think most users of disks more than a little under 20G would ultimately be >>> unhappy with that. I think I'd skip separate /home if HD size less than 19G. >>> So, something like this: >>> less than 19G -> up to 1G swap, balance / >>> 19G-35G -> 8G /, up to 2G swap, balance /home >>> more than 35G -> 12G /, up to 4G swap, balance /home >> I would go way beyond that. Don't users install additional applications? >> I have more than 30GB of applications installed, though I will admit >> that is probably far from typical. I think for under 80GB of space, it >> should be a single partition. Over that, if you are going to go for this >> crazy scheme ;), make / at least 20G. > I'd split at around 40G, with 20 for /. 20G is about 5 times the max usage of any of my 50 or so / partitions. I don't think average users with separate homes need even 10G for /, and the rest of the users know what they need and will custom partition regardless of any default proposal. Maybe add a 4th level with 80G+ disks given 20G for /. -- "Let us not love with words or in talk only. Let us love by what we do." 1 John 3:18 NLV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
