default partition scheme without /home - why ?

[Valent Turkovic]

Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 02:06:56PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> But that means you need to guess relative sizes for / and /home or offer 
>> some understandable choices.
> 
> I've been doing that for seven years here at BU and, although it's
> admittedly a small sample size, I've yet to have a complaint. 
> 
> With drives the size they tend to be these days, the common case is that
> we've got 200+ GB to work with. Put 10GB for / and give the rest to /home.
> 

You are not counting here new users that have already partitioned their 
200+GB drives and have lots of multimedia and off course windows on 
their hdd.