default partition scheme without /home - why ?
Brendan Conoboy
blc at redhat.com
Tue Mar 11 18:18:39 UTC 2008
Matthew Miller wrote:
> Sure -- law of the universe: data expands to fill available storage. This is
> inevitable with one big messy partition too.
With one big "messy" partition it happens later. No partitioning scheme
is going to solve that problem :-)
> In half? How are you doing this, exactly?
Hypothetical distribution. Lets say I have a dual boot system with an
80GB drive, half for Windows, half for Linux. A 20GB / leaves 20GB for
/home.
The bottom line is that when you carve out a separate /home from / you
run out of space faster, no matter how good your heuristic is for a
certain amount on / and a certain amount on /home. If somebody can put
forth a mechanism where this isn't true, my objection to a separate
/home is likely to vanish.
> Yeahhhh, not always viable.
Upgrades aren't always viable, but it's often an option.
>> 2) Have anaconda selectively rm -rf, leaving directories like /home,
>> /var/lib/xen and so forth alone.
>
> Not pretty, but an interesting suggestion.
Indeed, I only see two problems with it:
1. It's slow.
2. There's a lesser guaranty of file system integrity. You can fsck
before and after, but that goes back to problem 1.
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Brendan Conoboy / Red Hat, Inc. / blc at redhat.com
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