On 2008/03/12 10:04 (GMT-0400) James Hubbard apparently typed: > On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Felix Miata <mrmazda@xxxxxx> 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. > I don't understand. Do you expect the installer to protect the user > from formatting an already formatted partition? Depends on the mount point of that partition, but generally yes. > Doesn't the installer > already warn you that formatting an already formatted partition you'll > lose data? Would this mean that when doing an install/re-install that > the installation would not format a /home partition by default? It's > been a few months since I've installed so I don't remember what the > default behavior is. Because of these obstacles https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=248247 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=430836 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=426677 and the recent brokenness Rawhide's net installation process I don't remember either, but I don't believe any distro's installer would default to formatting a partition selected for mounting as separate /home unless it has no filesystem on it. I would consider any that do very broken. -- "Let us not love with words or in talk only. Let us love by what we do." 1 John 3:18 NLV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
