On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Evan Huus <eapa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is an important point. The 'average' user isn't going to be able to > take > advantage of a separate home partition, even if the installer does it > automatically for them. Reinstalling while preserving user data is > already possible with a single / partition, and more complicated recovery > operations (such as the one which started this thread) are not going to > occur to someone who doesn't know enough to manually partition in the > first place. > > Admittedly, the installer could make it easier for power-users to divide up > their partitions without specifying every detail manually, but I don't > think it > would provide any functional benefit, just usability benefit. > > Evan > > And let's not forget that for those who don't need/understand what is a separate home partition, choosing to do so is likely to become a problem in the future when the partition sizing is found to be incorrect/insufficient. IMHO for 'regular' users the ability to reinstall without wiping the /home surpasses most of the benefits of using an isolated partition. -- João Luís Marques Pinto GetDeb Team Leader http://www.getdeb.net http://blog.getdeb.net
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