On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 04:03:11AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Steve Langasek <vorlon@netexpress.net> writes: > > On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 02:17:37AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > 3) Get rid of the autopartition alltogether. Its severly broken for > > > anything but "I'm such a stupid user but I only want one linux", which > > > kind of excludes itself. People not able to partition themself usually > > > want to keep their windows. > > You seem to be rather arrogantly overlooking the "I have five of these > > machines to build this week and partitions are so far down on my list of > > things to configure that I'll scream if I have to see cfdisk one more > > time" group. This is not a question of not being able to partition, > > it's a question of by-hand partitioning being a waste of time for a > > sizable number of users. > > With appropriate warnings about the destructive nature of partitioning, > > I believe the autopartitioner will be very useful. > They would probably have empty harddisks to begin with. > The partitioner would pop up suggesting the partitions the > autopartitioner would create now and their mountpoints and they only > have to select "finish" or "save changes". > I would like to see the partitions suggested and adjustable by the > user instead on forcing it on him. This step realy destroys data so > the user should be aware of every partiton thats going to be destroyed > and what replaces them. That defeats the purpose of an *auto*partitioner. We already have an interface that does what you describe; it's the one that's universally regarded as newbie-hostile and generally tedious. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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