default partition scheme without /home - why ?
Valent Turkovic
valent.turkovic at gmail.com
Mon Mar 10 21:14:36 UTC 2008
2008/3/10 "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" <johannbg at hi.is>:
>
> Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 14:19 +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote:
> >
> >> 2008/3/10 Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com>:
> >>
> >>> On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 13:34 +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote:
> >>> > Is that on purpose and if it why?
> >>>
> >>> Guessing how much space you'll need in your non /home partitions over
> >>> time is difficult. Only you know how your install will be used. That's
> >>> why the installer defaults to the easiest thing to guess; How much boot
> >>> space you'll need, and how much swap space. However since you know how
> >>> your install is going to be used, you are best to make those estimations
> >>> and setup your /home as you want it.
> >>>
> >> 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.
> >> Servers, and other fedora usages may need some other partition schemes
> >> but a default home user has huge benefits from a dedicated /home
> >> partition.
> >>
> >
> > The amount has changed pretty significantly over time. I actually set
> > up my machines with a separate /home and am lucky that I get new
> > machines pretty frequently -- otherwise, I'd be running out of space on
> > upgrades :-) Also, you have to take into account disks that aren't
> > "huge" or people who are dual booting and don't want to dedicate 30+
> > gigs to Linux. There's a bug (don't remember the # offhand) with some
> > discussion of what some of the proper ratios might be, but there
> > continues to not be closure on what is "right"
> >
> > Jeremy
> >
> >
> Why only /home ( if this path should be taken )..
>
> I think the current setup is the right one, the experienced end user can
> change the
> partition layout if he wants to do so and the novice end users never has
> to worry about
I have the complete opposite view than yours. There should be a better
default configuration with /home partition that works for most novices
and expert users can customize is because they actually understand
what needs to be done unlike novice users.
> resizing his /home partition because Anaconda or himself configured it
> to small to begin with
> When his ( novice end user ) disk is full it's full.... It's better to
> give him a full cakes than to thin slices :)
If the partition is under 8GB then it would be better to have only one
partition, but for anything beyond that there should be an 8GB / and
all spare space allocated as /home partition.
This is only a first thought that could off course be refined but IMO
much better than only one / partition.
Valent.
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