separate /home by default

[John Richard Moser]

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Shouldn't /home be separate from / by default?

I've seen too many idiots looking for a billion DVDs to burn their music
collection to after making a 200 gig /.  For me:

swap - 2G (I like it big, and at the beginning so it's faster)
/ - 4G (Ubuntu demands 2G at least)
/home - 54G (all everything)

I also have a world-writable +t /home/shared (chmod 1777) owned by root.

The idea is that if you mess it up, you just erase / and reinstall.
That's it.  It's like the ultimate rescue tool, rather than "aww @*%%
back up everything and then reconfigure ALL your apps and lose your
e-mail. . . ."

Having a separate /home is really a good idea(TM).  Experiment with it
and decide if you want to do that by default on the automagical
partitioning.

Also, when creating an extended partition, the entire area should be
used.  I wound up with

[hda1][hda2[hda5][hda6]][empty                ]

and could only have 2 other non-ubuntu partitions once because of this.
 The ideal situation would be

[hda1][hda2[hda5][hda6][empty                ]]

Where any arbitrary creating of partitions inside an extended area
creates an extended area filling out the free area, unless otherwise
specified.  this makes later partitioning non-annoying.

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