why ubuntu LTS installs all in a single partition?

[Tom H]

On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 6:41 AM, Mauro Sanna <mrsanna1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I knew that, for a server, the best think is to partition the disk, at least
> create partitions for /root, /usr and /var.
>
> I've installed ubuntu Precise Pangolin for the first time and I see that it
> install all the system in a single partition.

Ubuntu's defaulted to everything_on_one_partition forever. And rightly
so because it's what's appropriate for the majority of users. You can
customize the partitioning pretty much to your heart's content
(especially with the server's d-i). 13.04's Ubiquity added an LVM
option.

FYI, having a separate "/usr" is a broken setup (although, AFAIK, it's
less broken on Ubuntu because the developers seem to make a point of
moving linked libraries and udev's rules are in "/lib/udev"; on a
default Lubuntu install, I could only find two or three executables
linked to libraries in "/usr/lib").

There's an initramfs-tools patch to allow "/usr" to be mounted by the
initramfs but AFAIK it hasn't been pushed to Debian (or Ubuntu) yet. I
tried it in May or June because the initramfs-tools maintainer had
asked for testers using LVM or MDADM and it works fine so it'll
hopefully be integrated in time for 14.04.