On 2008/03/12 10:04 (GMT-0400) James Hubbard apparently typed:
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Felix Miata <mrmazda(a)ij.net>
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/