default partition scheme without /home - why ?

[Valent Turkovic]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 10:55 PM, Brendan Conoboy <blc at redhat.com> wrote:
> Valent Turkovic wrote:
>  > I saw few times that some users put too much stuff in their home
>  > folder and fill their HDD until there was 0 free space, and their
>  > machines didn't boot after that - separate /home fixes that.
>
>  Isn't that what the reserved space is all about?  Last time I looked,
>  the ext3 filesystems were getting created with some reserved space by
>  default so this wasn't a problem.

I can't be 100% sure but I think I even filled my /home partition and
gnome didn't like it too much :)
Until I freed some space I had problems logging into gnome - but I
can't be sure, but that is easy to simulate.

Valent.

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