default partition scheme without /home - why ?
Valent Turkovic
valent.turkovic at gmail.com
Mon Mar 10 21:32:40 UTC 2008
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 8:35 PM, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta at gmail.com> 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!
You didn't understan me. 8GB for / and the rest of hard drive in /home
partition.
Now your wife has all the space she needs... is it now more clear?
And how much does your wife has in / if you don't take in account /home folder?
> 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
>
I believe you didn't understand my initial post.
I said one partitoin for / and one for /home so there is space for
user data as long as they have big hard drives :)
Valent.
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