separate /home by default

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 02:16:36AM -0500, John Richard Moser wrote:

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

We had this discussion before the Warty release, and the consensus was
basically "no".  Proper partitioning requires too much information from the
user, who shouldn't even be required to think about it.

Alternate partitioning options are available in the expert installation mode
for those who want them, but for the default, KISS applies.  Consider that a
common use case for a partitioning scheme is "never even think about it".

> 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.

I've never seen this happen, but if it does, I think I would agree that it's
a bug.

-- 
 - mdz