Re: Feature suggestions: optionally placing home folder into separate partition during ubuntu install

2010-12-29 Thread Daniel Gross
Hello João, Thank you for your response. I agree with you that ultimately having proper backup is THE solution for data loss. At the same time there are many factors that mitigate data loss. Keep in mind that data loss is a probabilistic event, and you want to increase the odds in your favor.

Re: Feature suggestions: optionally placing home folder into separate partition during ubuntu install

2010-12-29 Thread Usama Akkad
Hi, I've read the article on Theregister and I did not like how he made his point, it's journalism. Any way for the separate partition thing there is some points. 1. Where is you D drive? 2. What if the user wanted to change the OS? 3. Which get broken more often, file-system or Hard-drive? 4. Wh

Re: Feature suggestions: optionally placing home folder into separate partition during ubuntu install

2010-12-29 Thread Joao Pinto
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Daniel Gross wrote: > Hello Phill, > > I think you can compare the benefit of having user folder on a separate > partition to users having a backup. > > Most of the time a user does not need the backup. But when the > unforeseen event occurs that requires a restore