Thanks again for the input.  I'll probably end up tackling the install this weekend.  One last follow up question...: I'll be creating the new /home partition in Edgy following the steps <a href="http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/separatehome"> here</a>.  One thing that is not mentioned is what happens during the install process for future Ubuntus (gutsy in this case)?  When I tell it to use the existing /home partition as "/home" will it reformat the partition?  ---I realize this probably doesn't happen since that would defeat the purpose of having a separate /home partition in the first place... Or does the the installer just ignore the files and just assign the appropriate permissions, links, etc to the existing files?  I just have some important stuff in there I wouldn't want to lose. Forgive me for being over-cautious... Regards, Ryan <div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 14, 2007 7:55 AM, Kevin Fries <<a href="mailto:kfries@cctus.com">kfries@cctus.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d"> On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 18:04 -0700, Neal McBurnett wrote: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 04:18:28PM -0700, Kevin Fries wrote: > > I have begun the conversation in the developers to see if we can try and > > fix this. > > > > Its more than holy war, its about stability and disaster recovery.  The > > one partition fits all approach is very bad in these aspects.  That is > > why I have begun the conversation in the developers to try and get it > > fixed for Hardy. > > > > I know my normal partitioning scheme will likely get labeled too extreme > > in the end, if I can move the default used in installation to a more > > robust system, I will feel completely victorious. > > Um - "victorious"?  Comparisons to holy war?  I would ask who is the > enemy? </div>The original comment was about how each person has their ideal partitioning layout.  And the arguments can get to resemble a real holy war similar in stupidity as to which is the best distro.  Personally, I prefer a four to five partition layout, and install all my machines (and will be training my guys next week that will be building all of Fighting Penguin's machines) to use this partitioning method. / = 20GB /boot = 512MB /home = <remainder> /var/log = 5GB Servers get /home partition replaced with a /srv partition and any machine with more than 2GB of ram gets /tmp mounted tmpfs. For software and web developer machines, a /srv partition is created with 10GB in addition to the /home directory. If a machine is marked as highly critical, /etc is on its own partition, then mirrors are set up for /boot, /etc, /home, and /srv.  This will allow for a complete rebuild, and software reset in minutes not hours. I don't anticipate that Ubuntu would ever need or even want anything that elaborate.  Instead, I am hoping to get /boot, and /home isolated to make Ubuntu a little more robust and improve disaster recovery. <div class="Ih2E3d"> -- Kevin Fries Senior Linux Engineer Computer and Communications Technology, Inc A Division of Japan Communications Inc. -- </div><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">Ubuntu-us-co mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-us-co@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-us-co@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-co" target="_blank"> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-co</a> </div></div></blockquote></div>