Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: ubiquity
This is a feature request to make the auto-partitioning smarter, in the
sense of choosing a good partition layout based on the actual disk
layout of the user, and most importatly reducing techie-talk and
decision-making while installing Ubuntu.
The proposal is to develop algorithm(s) to make the partitioning
decisions for the user and present the options using as little technical
terms as possible.
The premise here is that Partitioning is major alien-talk to non
techies, so talking about primary and logical partitions, /boot, /home
and /blahblah on install time is just asking for trouble.
A (small) list of auto-generated good partitioning options should be
presented to the user, while still allowing the use of the
advanced/manual partitioner if desired.
As an example:
* The installer detects the user has a primary partition occupying the whole
of the disk.
* The algorithm then detects if it can resize the partition and evaluates the
free space it can get while still leaving reasonable free-space on hda1 for the
system install.
* It evaluates a number of possible partitioning layouts and ranks them on
flexibility, safety of user data, etc.
* The highest ranked layout is returned as the default option to the user,
while giving the user the option to see other top (3 ?) ranked layouts or to
manually edit.
I hope this interests the developers, as for sure it will help all users :)
** Affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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Automatic partitioning is not smart
https://launchpad.net/bugs/76521
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