Les Mikesell wrote:
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.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.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 /homeI'd split at around 40G, with 20 for /.
I think that some users are going to file up their /home with DVD/music downloads, and then grumble about the unused space on /.
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.
I upgrade infrequently (I went from FC4 to F7, skipping everything in between), and generally just buy a new disk for the new OS. I see disks as cheap, though I agree not everyone thinks that. I stick both disks in the computer, copy over what I want, and leave it there for a few weeks, until I am satisfied that everything on the new OS is the way I like it.