Re: Installing with separate /home partition & bug #150670

[Adam Williamson <awilliam redhat com>]

On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 20:31 +1100, Lex Hider wrote:
> Bug 150670 is almost 4 years old.
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=150670
> 
> I'd like to see if we can get agreement on changing the default 
> partitioning in anaconda to separate /home & "/".
> 
> I think this is vital, especially since live upgrades aren't 
> "officially" supported, and many support docs recommend separating "/" & 
> home, and doing a clean install when upgrading fedora versions.

A huge +1. This is just a no-brainer for end-users, having a
separate /home makes it massively easier to recover from all sorts of
problems. I really don't see a downside. Except in the case where you're
installing to a very small amount of space - there could be a simple
heuristic which uses a single / partition when there's, say, 6GB or less
space available.
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