Why does the default Ubuntu Install format the Hard Disk?

[Phillip Susi]

Ummm.... ubuntu DOES offer to repartition.  If you already have windows 
installed, ubuntu offers to shrink the NTFS partition and install to the 
free space, which it configures as an extended partition with a swap 
partition and a root partition.  Works like a charm.



John C. McCabe-Dansted wrote:
> At a installfest it was suggested that it would be more user-friendly to 
> automatically partition the hard disk by default, as with SUSE. Has there 
> been a discussion of why Ubuntu chose "format" as the default? (I cannot find 
> one on Google).
>