Ubiquity - setting a separate /home by default

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 04:47:46PM +0200, David Prieto wrote:
> Hi again,
> 
> > I should also point out (because I gave out misinformation on IRC in a
> > moment of inattention) that this only works when you're using the manual
> > partitioner and select a partition to mount as /, or equivalent. If you
> > use the automatic partitioner and select "use entire disk", then that's
> > equivalent to wiping the whole drive and starting again.
> 
> I really would like to discuss this. I think this would make sense in
> some cases, like having several distros coexisting in the same disk for
> example. But what if there is just ONE partition, with Ubuntu on it? In
> that case, why shouldn't /home be kept?
> 
> My original proposal was intended for total newbies, the kind of people
> who would be afraid of the manual partitioner. I think your solution
> should especially help that kind of people, and that keeping /home if
> there is only one partition would be the right way to do so.

I tend to agree. Unfortunately it doesn't fit very easily into how the
automatic partitioner is designed right now, but please do open a bug
report for this (against the partman-auto package in Ubuntu).

> That aside, I opened a thread about the issue at ubuntuforums. The
> members seem a bit uneasy about it, saying that it might bring problems.
> I think it would be good if you guys came over and shed some light on
> it.
> 
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=793772 this is the link.

I'd prefer if development discussions stayed here; what with OpenSSL and
everything I have very little time for forums threads right now.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]