On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 14:19 +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote:
2008/3/10 Jesse Keating <jkeating(a)redhat.com>:
> On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 13:34 +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote:
> > Is that on purpose and if it why?
>
> Guessing how much space you'll need in your non /home partitions over
> time is difficult. Only you know how your install will be used. That's
> why the installer defaults to the easiest thing to guess; How much boot
> space you'll need, and how much swap space. However since you know how
> your install is going to be used, you are best to make those estimations
> and setup your /home as you want it.
>
> --
> Jesse Keating
> Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?
Fedora Live CD target audience are desktop users, right? I as a
desktop user haven't seen any need for / partiton over 8-10 GB.
Servers, and other fedora usages may need some other partition schemes
but a default home user has huge benefits from a dedicated /home
partition.
It is probable that new users aren't aware that /home partition as a
dedicated partition has advantages and it would be best if anaconda
makes the "smart" partition scheme in which /home is a separate
partition in LVM volume, or a logical partition. Separate home has
lots of advantages that you are aware of, so why not just change the
partition scheme to take advantage of that?
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.
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