default partition scheme without /home - why ?

Valent Turkovic valent.turkovic at gmail.com
Mon Mar 10 21:35:56 UTC 2008


On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 8:29 PM, Casey Dahlin <cjdahlin at ncsu.edu> wrote:
>
> Jeff Spaleta wrote:
>  > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 5:19 AM, Valent Turkovic
>  > <valent.turkovic at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >
>  >>  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.
>  >>
>  >
>  > HAHAHAHAHAHA!
>  >
>  > My wife has 10+ gigs of just digital photos, and its just vacation
>  > pictures.  And she's pretty much the epitome of a "desktop" user.
>  >
>  > I know "desktop users" with small children and digital cameras who
>  > blow through 20 gigs of space in personal photos in under 6 months.
>  > And then once you get into digital video you blow through 100's of
>  > gigs of personal home movies in mere weeks.  All of this activity has
>  > become pretty common "home desktop" activity, for certain people.
>  >
>  > I think your concept of "desktop usage" is extremely myopic and
>  > doesn't take into account the explosion of personal data that is being
>  > driven by personal digital media.  I'm not even talking about crap
>  > like retail entertainment media that people purchase or steal.  I'm
>  > talking strictly about digital media that "home users" are creating
>  > with the digital devices and then organizing and editting on their
>  > "home desktop" computers which isn't meant for public sharing.
>  >
>  > -jef
>  >
>  >
>
>  Why are all those people storing their files on the / partition?
>  Shouldn't they be in /home :)
>
>
>  Jef, I think you missed that Valent was talking about a / separate from
>  /home
>
>  --CJD
>
>
>
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Exactly.

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