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. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 79 degrees Fahrenheit.
