Please do not reopen this bug. No amount of changing its status is
going to change my willingness to integrate this functionality into the
installer. This is not a papercut. Papercuts are *small* *usability*
bugs, of which this is neither.
It is not as simple as saying "assign 10GB to / and give the rest to
/home and swap." What if the hard drive is smaller than 10GB? What if
10GB is not enough for everything they want to contain under /? We are
at best wildly guessing at what the user needs. Asking them to make the
determination would be dumping a problem they are potentially unequipped
to handle on them. Does a computer novice need to know what a partition
is? Is asking them to determine how much space they think the system
will use, versus how much space their personal files will use for an
operating system that they have never even used before, fair?
More to the point, what is wrong with the current implementation of
allowing advanced users to install over top of a previous version of
Ubuntu, deleting system files where necessary? This avoids complicated
partition schemes entirely.
** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Won't Fix
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offer to create a separate /home partition
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/156177
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