On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 10:49 -0700, Kevin Fries wrote: > There is a bad issue IMHO with the way Ubuntu partitions disks by > default anyway. While I always custom install to place /boot and /var > or /var/log on separate partitions, I understand other reluctance to do > that. But! /home should always be on a separate partition in a > workstation build, and placing that as LVM by default is just a great > CYA move. > > If there is any part of the system that is likely to grow out of > control, its user file space.... i.e. /home. This just comes down to > long term ease of use for the end user. Adding another disk, could be > added to the /home LVM, and provide an environment that is more > advantageous to end users than Windows (who would need to keep track of > additional disk drives rather than just see a larger home partition). > > Given that Hardy is a LTS release, I guess the question is to add it now > so that the LTS users don't have to wait 3 years to get it? Or consider > the feature untested, and wait for Hardy+1 so that there is time to iron > out bugs before its added to the next LTS release?
LVM support for the desktop CD installer (ubiquity) citing this specific use case of having a separate /home has been brought up at the past two Ubuntu Developer Summits. However, the conclusion has always been that the graphical tools to manage LVM PVs are not ready. I also believe that the ubiquity-preserve-home [1] specification, which is targeted for Hardy, will mitigate the need for a separate /home partition. 1: http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/ubiquity-preserve-home
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