https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1652997
Bug ID: 1652997 Summary: Recommended Partitioning Scheme suggests far too small root partition Product: Fedora Documentation Version: devel Component: install-guide Assignee: pbokoc@redhat.com Reporter: jwakely@redhat.com QA Contact: docs-qa@lists.fedoraproject.org CC: pbokoc@redhat.com, zach@oglesby.co
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/f29/install-guide/install/Instal... suggests 10gb for the / partition, this seems far too small for a modern Fedora system.
For a minimal installation, a 5 GB root partition will be sufficient. However, for most common installations which include extra packages and a graphical user interface, the root partition should be at least 10 GB; with 20 GB being sufficient for most common use cases.
On one of my F27 machines my root partition is 40gb and 80% full.
On a second F27 machine with a separate /var partition I have a 20gb root partition, which is 70% full, and another 25-40gb used in the /var partition.
Neither of those would fit in 20gb, let alone 10gb.
(I use these machines for development and package maintenance, but all sources and builds are done in /home and /var/lib/mock which are separate partitions, so I don't think my large root partitions are especially atypical.)
Should the recommendation be updated to something more realistic?
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