Re: default partition scheme without /home - why ?

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Duane Clark wrote:
Valent Turkovic wrote:
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 11:02 PM, Duane Clark <fpga@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

 However, as a user, I can say that I will always use a single partition
 (as I have been doing since my HPUX and Solaris days).

I have a lot, really a lot of applications installed and here is my df -h
/dev/sda6             7,4G  6,1G  1,3G  83% /

I'm talking about live cd + lots of additional software.

What did you do? Install everything from DVD and then go to town on
fedora repos? :)

No, I'm referring to non-fedora software. Some of it is commercial, like Matlab and VHDL simulators. But there is quite a lot of free software engineering software available, typically used by engineering students, that can take up a couple of GBs per app.

For example, take a look at the free single file download here:
http://www.xilinx.com/support/download/i92linwp.htm
A whopping 1.7GB.


From few non-free apps I installed I saw that there is usually the option to install it to /opt or /home/user/bin directories, right?

I guess that students using this software know this and so make /opt and /home a separate partitions with enough space for their non-free apps.

Valent.

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