Installing with separate /home partition & bug #150670

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Wed Feb 25 19:39:04 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 10:58 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> A huge +1. This is just a no-brainer for end-users, having a
> separate /home makes it massively easier to recover from all sorts of
> problems. I really don't see a downside. Except in the case where you're
> installing to a very small amount of space - there could be a simple
> heuristic which uses a single / partition when there's, say, 6GB or less
> space available.

The biggest problem has always been coming up with the right algorithm
to decide how much / gets vs how much /home gets.  Come up with a good
one and throw it at the Anaconda folks to see what sticks.

-- 
Jesse Keating
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