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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