default partition scheme without /home - why ?

[Valent Turkovic]

2008/3/10 Benjamin Kreuter <ben.kreuter at gmail.com>:
> On Monday 10 March 2008 09:33:12 Paul W. Frields wrote:
>  >
>  > Those users could read the Installation Guide, which talks about this
>  > exact situation and how to set up partitions that make sense.  I don't
>  > think it's unreasonable to expect that new users who are going to
>  > install should read the document that tells them how to do it.  There's
>  > not a lot we can do for people who won't read.
>
>  As much as I hate to say it, I have to side with Valent on this one.  It does
>  make sense to have the default layout create a separate / and /home partition
>  layout, especially in LVM where these can be resized later.  I can't really
>  take a guess at what the ratio should be, but 10-20GB for / would suffice for
>  the default install (20 seems excessive, but there is no real way to tell).
>
>  Perhaps we could create a new option, like "Recommended layout for desktops,"
>  that uses a reasonable estimate of what the partition layout should be.  If a
>  user wants to change that, they can (and they can always "review and modify"
>  the partition layout), and they can always resize later if they need to.  New
>  users are often unsure of what the partition layout is, and unfortunately,
>  they often fail to read the install guide.
>
>  Or perhaps we could just throw in an easy to read, unambiguous message on the
>  download page, to the effect of, "New users, read this before installing."
>
>  -- Benjamin Kreuter
>
>
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