> Note: I don't use the auto-layout except on throwaway test installs > as it never seems to give me the layout I need, and except for laptops > I would prefer to never use the interactive installer at all.
The real problem here is that many people choose 1 partition. Which implies trusting that all the software has been audited and improved for how it behaves when partitions get full. I'll provide a hint. No such audit has happened... (Perhaps you don't make the mistake of using 1 partition. But many do. And many will do so, and it was the easy default practice forever, and still is in other systems. Hence otto and I moved to stop this bad behaviour by creating an auto-layout scheme which could be used by default. If you avoid it, you should still follow the same partition splitting rules, but AGAIN... most people won't do so).
