On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 08:48 -0500, Benjamin Kreuter wrote: > On Monday 10 March 2008 09:33:12 Paul W. Frields wrote: > > > > Those users could read the Installation Guide, which talks about this > > exact situation and how to set up partitions that make sense. I don't > > think it's unreasonable to expect that new users who are going to > > install should read the document that tells them how to do it. There's > > not a lot we can do for people who won't read. > > As much as I hate to say it, I have to side with Valent on this one. It does > make sense to have the default layout create a separate / and /home partition > layout, especially in LVM where these can be resized later. I can't really > take a guess at what the ratio should be, but 10-20GB for / would suffice for > the default install (20 seems excessive, but there is no real way to tell). > > 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. > > Or perhaps we could just throw in an easy to read, unambiguous message on the > download page, to the effect of, "New users, read this before installing." > > -- Benjamin Kreuter +1 As far as the sizes go, why not add a button to Anaconda that suggest a good recommended size to the user? Something like this would be fine: (total disk size) - (150MB /boot) - (swap) - (15GB /) I based those numbers on my system - I've got three kernels installed, as well as some large packages like IcedTea, OO.o, libgcj, a bunch of *-devels, and some Mock jailroots. All that's taking less than 10GB on /, and /boot is 19MB. I can't really see 150MB being filled quickly (that's about 7 kernels installed at once!) and a 15GB / should leave plenty of space for some games or whatever the user would like to install. Implementing a /home would be a win-win-win... If the user doesn't know what to choose, the installer does it for him/her. If he/she does, then /home is exactly as they like it. And in either case, it makes upgrade paths a lot easier. Stewart -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
