<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Paul Schwartz <<a href="mailto:pmjs1115@yahoo.com">pmjs1115@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I think you're right, but there isn't enough info out there about the proper way to size the partitions. This presents the noobie or near-noobie with a lot of difficult decisions if they don't just use one partition.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>Yeah, I've helped my share of noobs myself on launchpad that really don't get partitions. Many want to use windows tools to make the partitions first not understanding that Ubuntu will partition itself (at least the shrink win and put myself here bit). I think making the default install just do 3 partitions (/home, / and swap) would be a good idea. They will have to come up with a system for deciding how much for each or give a slider similar to the one for shrinking windows and let the user decide. Actually, maybe it should not be the default but a second option. That way people who really are clueless can still do a fairly simple install. Or maybe default to 3 and give a second opton that says "if you don't know what to do chose this". Anyway, something would be better than nothing. Doing it manually at install is a pain.<br>
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