Les Mikesell wrote:
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.
No, its inconvenient in that case, while at the same time your backup plan is
wrong/inadequate. The partitioning scheme may have made this more convenient,
but that is only true if the installer ASSUMES the prior /home is valid and can
be used. You make the assumption that it will always be a good idea for a new
user to just install again without touching their /home. They will do that,
even when the filesystem on it is completely hosed.
Predicting this is as futile as predicting what hardware needs a random user
will have when he walks into the front door of a computer store.
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