On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 06:55:06AM -0700, Don Russell wrote:
Unless otherwise told:
- a small boot partition
- a partition large enough for the entire system as shipped + % "expansion"
- a partition for /home and /var and ?
I don't see a need for a separate /var on most desktop systems. But there
could actually be different defaults based on installclass (Personal
Desktop / Workstation / Server / etc.) -- that's what we do here at BU.
I'm not sure where all user preferences etc are kept, but
it'd be nice
if an upgrade from one release of FC to the next could include a
"reformat system partition(s)" so the base install could be "clean",
but
without loosing user data, preferences and third-party packages.
You pretty much can't avoid zapping /etc, and that'll include some amount of
configuration information. But beyond that I think it might be a bit hard
for the installer to safely and reliably detect exactly what you want here
-- the current situation, where you can choose yourself, seems safer.
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