default partition scheme without /home - why ?

[Casey Dahlin]

Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 5:19 AM, Valent Turkovic
> <valent.turkovic at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>>  Fedora Live CD target audience are desktop users, right? I as a
>>  desktop user haven't seen any need for / partiton over 8-10 GB.
>>     
>
> HAHAHAHAHAHA!
>
> My wife has 10+ gigs of just digital photos, and its just vacation
> pictures.  And she's pretty much the epitome of a "desktop" user.
>
> I know "desktop users" with small children and digital cameras who
> blow through 20 gigs of space in personal photos in under 6 months.
> And then once you get into digital video you blow through 100's of
> gigs of personal home movies in mere weeks.  All of this activity has
> become pretty common "home desktop" activity, for certain people.
>
> I think your concept of "desktop usage" is extremely myopic and
> doesn't take into account the explosion of personal data that is being
> driven by personal digital media.  I'm not even talking about crap
> like retail entertainment media that people purchase or steal.  I'm
> talking strictly about digital media that "home users" are creating
> with the digital devices and then organizing and editting on their
> "home desktop" computers which isn't meant for public sharing.
>
> -jef
>
>   

Why are all those people storing their files on the / partition? 
Shouldn't they be in /home :)


Jef, I think you missed that Valent was talking about a / separate from 
/home

--CJD