default partition scheme without /home - why ?
Duane Clark
fpga at pacbell.net
Mon Mar 10 22:16:22 UTC 2008
Valent Turkovic wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 11:02 PM, Duane Clark <fpga at pacbell.net> wrote:
>> Felix Miata wrote:
>> >
>> > I think most users of disks more than a little under 20G would ultimately be
>> > unhappy with that. I think I'd skip separate /home if HD size less than 19G.
>> > So, something like this:
>> >
>> > less than 19G -> up to 1G swap, balance /
>> > 19G-35G -> 8G /, up to 2G swap, balance /home
>> > more than 35G -> 12G /, up to 4G swap, balance /home
>> >
>>
>> I would go way beyond that. Don't users install additional applications?
>> I have more than 30GB of applications installed, though I will admit
>> that is probably far from typical. I think for under 80GB of space, it
>> should be a single partition. Over that, if you are going to go for this
>> crazy scheme ;), make / at least 20G.
>>
>> However, as a user, I can say that I will always use a single partition
>> (as I have been doing since my HPUX and Solaris days).
>
> I have a lot, really a lot of applications installed and here is my df -h
> /dev/sda6 7,4G 6,1G 1,3G 83% /
>
> I'm talking about live cd + lots of additional software.
>
> What did you do? Install everything from DVD and then go to town on
> fedora repos? :)
No, I'm referring to non-fedora software. Some of it is commercial, like
Matlab and VHDL simulators. But there is quite a lot of free software
engineering software available, typically used by engineering students,
that can take up a couple of GBs per app.
For example, take a look at the free single file download here:
http://www.xilinx.com/support/download/i92linwp.htm
A whopping 1.7GB.
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