Re: bug 150670. How to default partition.

[Greg Morgan <drkludge cox net>]

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Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 17:26 +0200, Joel Andres Granados wrote:
>> Found that this issue was not resolved yet for fc7.  Personally I would 
>> leave the default as it is (100MB->/boot,XXXMB->swap and the resto for 
>> /)  but the bug discussion does have some details that should be avoided 
>> (The issue with the newbie realizing that it would be better to separate 
>> the home and OS way after he has finished the installation.)
>> To suggest a solution I would do something like (100MB->boot--- 
>> XXXMB->swap---10GB->/ --- the rest for /home :)  but thats just me....
>> I tested it in kickstart and gui installs, everything seems to be fine.  
> 
> The problem is "is 10 gigs enough?"  And on multilib platforms, it only
> barely is today.  Which means that as someone upgrades and wants to add
> more software, it's not going to be anymore.

FYI,
I installed all of FC 5 CD software and all the stuff in extras just to
see what was there.  21G was required.

Regards,
Greg


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