default partition scheme without /home - why ?

[Les Mikesell]

Duane Clark wrote:
> Felix Miata wrote:
>>
>> I think most users of disks more than a little under 20G would 
>> ultimately be
>> unhappy with that. I think I'd skip separate /home if HD size less 
>> than 19G.
>> So, something like this:
>>
>> less than 19G -> up to 1G swap, balance /
>> 19G-35G -> 8G /, up to 2G swap, balance /home
>> more than 35G -> 12G /, up to 4G swap, balance /home
>>
> 
> I would go way beyond that. Don't users install additional applications? 
> I have more than 30GB of applications installed, though I will admit 
> that is probably far from typical. I think for under 80GB of space, it 
> should be a single partition. Over that, if you are going to go for this 
> crazy scheme ;), make / at least 20G.

I'd split at around 40G, with 20 for /.

> However, as a user, I can say that I will always use a single partition 
> (as I have been doing since my HPUX and Solaris days).

How do you preserve your /home files when you upgrade?  If you have a 
spare machine with lots of space to rsync back and forth or some other 
quick backup mechanism it's not a big deal, but not everyone has that.

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