default partition scheme without /home - why ?
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Mon Mar 10 23:54:46 UTC 2008
Chris Snook wrote:
>
> If you can come up with a formula that properly handles anything from 2
> GB (You can buy a brand-new EeePC Surf with this) to 1 TB, and correctly
> guesses how many OSes the user plans to multi-boot or virtualize, I'd be
> glad to go with that, but I can pretty much guarantee that it will piss
> off more people than the current default behavior, which cannot possibly
> be wrong, even if it's not always ideal.
>
The current behavior is always wrong when it it time to reinstall and
you don't have a place to copy your work out while the new install
reformats.
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Les Mikesell
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