default partition scheme without /home - why ?

[Felix Miata]

On 2008/03/12 10:27 (GMT-0400) Brendan Conoboy apparently typed:

> Felix Miata wrote:

>> I can't imagine a newbie not welcoming the intelligence of a separate /home
>> when they blindly reinstall after screwing something up, like an upgrade to a
>> newer version 6 months later, shortly followed by trying again with reformat
>> of /. You think most people, particularly the clueless, actually have backups
>> of their personal data? If you do I think you're dreaming of utopia.

> They can still use the upgrade option and not reformat /.

Did you miss the part about "after screwing something up"? That would include
a botched upgrade, for whatever reason, following which a fresh install on a
reformatted / would be the natural and possibly only solution. It's a not
uncommon situation.
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