On Monday, March 14, 2016 10:42:35 AM CDT Stephen Gallagher wrote:
On 03/14/2016 10:37 AM, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 10:04:23AM -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
>> 2) Default guided partitioning scheme
>> Chris Murphy raised some excellent questions about how we might lay out
>> the
>> default partitioning scheme of Fedora Server. Currently, the default
>> layout is pretty much what it was in the pre-Fedora.next period, which
>> means that it's basically three partitions; an up to 50GB / (root)
>> partition, a swap partition based on available RAM and a /home partition
>> with all the remaining space. This is a layout that makes a lot of sense
>> for a Workstation installation, but perhaps not as much for a Server
>> installation.
>
> This is a great example of the kind of change that _having_ a separate
> Fedora Server makes possible. It's nothing dramatic, but it's easy to
> make a change for this use case without needing to worry about also
> accomodating desktop needs, and Workstation (and spins) can have
> sensible desktop defaults without needing to worry about what server
> storage looks like. \o/
Yes, although as I think about it, we also need to be aware of the secondary
effects of changing this:
Anyone who is using the Fedora Server netinstall is going to have this as
their default layout; regardless of what environment they select. This
suggests that Workstation may well want to offer a separate netinstall ISO
in addition to their Live media.
You do realise that they do that already right?
there is a Workstation netinstall tree, a cloud netinstall tree and the server
tree, Everything also has a netinstall tree, which doubles as a generic
installer.
Dennis