Default partitioning

[Stephen Gallagher]

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On 10/28/2010 10:37 PM, Javier Prats wrote:
> Hello Stephen,
> 
> On a default Fedora installation using encryption and LVM it partitioned
> a 50GB drive giving 44GB to the root partition and only 4GB to /home.
> In most environments saving things to the root partition is avoided and
> it seems there is more than enough room for applications.  This is the
> first distribution I've seen do this, but it's also the first time using
> encryption on partitions.  This is very well ignorance on my part, but
> is there a reason for that being the default partitioning scheme?
> 


What version of Fedora are we discussing? The most recent version I
installed directly (Fedora 13) partitioned / with all of the available
space* and did not create a separate /home partition at all (I had to
perform a custom installation to accomplish this)


* Well, it also added a SWAP partition.
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