Comment 3 for bug 198379

I've noticed, that / partition is too small on majority of disks these days - I've did some tests with small (8 GB) and large (250 GB) drives, used "separate home" partitioning scheme:
- with 8 GB drive installed created about 2,5 GB / partition, which is too small these days for desktop systems (see bellow why);
- with 250 GB disk installer created less than 7 GB / partition and 3 GB swap partition (computer has 1 GB of RAM). This is a nonsense - if user installs Ubuntu desktop on 250 GB hard drive then / partition should be at least 12 or 16 GB size - several big games (like openarena or nexus) and lots of upgrades will fill 7 GB pretty fast, especially when downloaded .deb files are leaved in /var/cache/apt/archives/
Also swap partition shouldn't be 50% size of / partition and 3x bigger than available RAM. It's always enough to have 2 GB swap partition for computers with 1 GB RAM - your computer will be not responsible when you have 1 GB RAM and running software will use 2 GB of swap.