On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 22:30 +0000, (=?utf-8?q?=60=60-=5F-=C2=B4=C2=B4?=) -- Fernando wrote: > On Monday 07 January 2008 21:10:41 Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > > 10GB is more than enough under normal usage. You'd have to install..all of > > GNOME, KDE, Enlightenment...and it still wouldn't be full. Even with all > > that and a lot more, I'm at around 7GB full. > > > > On Jan 7, 2008 4:05 PM, Mario Vukelic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 09:50 +1300, Jonathan Musther wrote: > > > > One thing I've been thinking would be good for quite some time is > > > > creating separate / and /home partitions by default. > > > > > > While a separate /home makes reinstalls easier, how would you know the > > > size of / the user needs? > > $ df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda1 9.7G 6.5G 2.7G 71% / > > 10 GiBs for small disks, and 20GiBs should be enough for most beginners and > powerusers. > Even powerfull users will most probably set extra mountpoints. > You might want to bear in mind that /tmp is on /, not /home. A number of apps (k3b, for example) sometimes want to write large files (such as 9GB DVD images) there temporarily, and it's puzzling for a user when Gnome says "13Gb available disk space" but writing a 9Gb file fails. Partitioning up hard drive space in this manner is not trivial, and the least surprising option seems to be the standard just-one-partition layout.
If we really want to push the convenience of multiple partitions by default, I think we'd need something more dynamic. A totally blue-sky idea would be something like: default to LVM, with /, /home, swap, /whatever logical volumes and a daemon that watches disk usage and lvextends a logical volume once it gets over 75% full (or, for added bonus points, when some process wants to allocate a file that would push the usage over 75%). Or something. I don't think the benefits of a separate /home are sufficient to offset the unexpected failure-cases introduced. Especially since the benefits are mostly only for power users who will likely set up their own partitioning scheme. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
