default partition scheme without /home - why ?

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote:
> Jeremy Katz wrote:
>> On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 14:19 +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote:
>>  
>>> 2008/3/10 Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com>:
>>>    
>>>> On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 13:34 +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote:
>>>>  > Is that on purpose and if it why?
>>>>
>>>>  Guessing how much space you'll need in your non /home partitions over
>>>>  time is difficult.  Only you know how your install will be used.  
>>>> That's
>>>>  why the installer defaults to the easiest thing to guess;  How 
>>>> much boot
>>>>  space you'll need, and how much swap space.  However since you 
>>>> know how
>>>>  your install is going to be used, you are best to make those 
>>>> estimations
>>>>  and setup your /home as you want it.
>>>>       
>>> Fedora Live CD target audience are desktop users, right? I as a
>>> desktop user haven't seen any need for / partiton over 8-10 GB.
>>> Servers, and other fedora usages may need some other partition schemes
>>> but a default home user has huge benefits from a dedicated /home
>>> partition.
>>>     
>>
>> The amount has changed pretty significantly over time.  I actually set
>> up my machines with a separate /home and am lucky that I get new
>> machines pretty frequently -- otherwise, I'd be running out of space on
>> upgrades :-)  Also, you have to take into account disks that aren't
>> "huge" or people who are dual booting and don't want to dedicate 30+
>> gigs to Linux.  There's a bug (don't remember the # offhand) with some
>> discussion of what some of the proper ratios might be, but there
>> continues to not be closure on what is "right"
>>
>> Jeremy
>>
>>   
> Why only /home ( if this path should be taken )..
>
> I think the current setup is the right one, the experienced end user 
> can change the
> partition layout if he wants to do so and the novice end users never 
> has to worry about
> resizing his /home partition because Anaconda or himself configured it 
> to small to begin with
> When his ( novice end user ) disk is full it's full.... It's better to 
> give him a full cakes than to thin slices :)
>
/cakes/cake(s)...
cakes for more then one HD...
> Best regards.
>                 Johann B.

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