Bug#708424: d-i manual: Partitioning for Debian - confusing phrase

["Lennart Sorensen" <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>]

On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 01:59:51AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Holger Wansing, le Wed 15 May 2013 19:41:11 +0200, a écrit :
> > I just read something in the d-i manual in 
> > Appendix C. Partitioning for Debian (see
> > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apcs01.html.en), which is
> > confusing:
> > Shortened to some words, it's like this:
> > 
> > Debian needs at least one partition for itself.
> > But you should probably spent some more partitions for Debian.
> > You should at least create a root partition.
> >                              ^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^
> > 
> > 
> > Huh? You should create a root partition, but you don't have to?
> > That's wrong.
> > I would have prepared a patch, but I'm unsure what was really meant
> > here.
> 
> I don't see why it should be "must" here, indeed.

I doesn't have to be a root partition.  Could be a root LV on LVM,
and a number of other things too.

-- 
Len Sorensen