default partition scheme without /home - why ?

[Matthew Miller]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 08:56:23AM -0600, Brendan Conoboy wrote:
> Given that with each successive release, Fedora packages take more space 
> and people install more software, eventually whatever you set aside for 
> / is going to run out of room.  

Sure -- law of the universe: data expands to fill available storage. This is
inevitable with one big messy partition too.

>         Is everyone really reinstalling from 
> scratch so often that cutting your disk space in half is a good idea?

In half? How are you doing this, exactly?


> Ok, here's an idea: Don't format / when you reinstall.  There's a number 
> of ways you can do this:
> 1) Use the upgrade option.

Yeahhhh, not always viable.

> 2) Have anaconda selectively rm -rf, leaving directories like /home, 
> /var/lib/xen and so forth alone.

Not pretty, but an interesting suggestion.



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