default partition scheme without /home - why ?

[Benny Amorsen]

Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> writes:

> Benny Amorsen wrote:

>> I haven't actually tried reinstalling. My current laptop was installed
>> around FC3.

> And is the reason for that because you didn't want to lose your own
> work in /home?

Well that is part of the reason. I also don't want to lose /etc and
parts of /var, and certainly not /usr/local. On the server I really
don't want to lose /srv, but that has its own partition.

The only problem I have with my upgraded laptop that I wouldn't have
if I reinstalled is that my file system is hopelessly fragmented.

>> Anyway, I was talking about /usr and /var, not about /home.
>
> /var can have substantial write activity in some scenarios (busy mail
> or database server, or anything with a lot of logging) and it can
> improve performance to put it on a separate disk drive (not just a
> separate partition) to eliminate head contention with other work.

Separate disks are an entirely different issue.


/Benny