http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/19218/
- What is the goal of the colors (green, orange...) used for different partitions exactly ? It does not correspond to nothing ! We should use color for a true information (see solution 1)

- Why by god the application propose by default to completely erase existing partitions, this is ridiculous ! The user can, by mistake, loose all his data and existing OS by this way ! (and then never go back to linux, you can be sure of that). i propose solution 2..

- Not really clear for new user what is / or /home and so on... solution 3.

Thanks folks.

[615 votes] Solution #1: One color = one filesystem !


[703 votes] Solution #2: Do not propose to erase existing OS by default !


[703 votes] Solution #3: Give some explanation about / and /home etc.


[-128 votes] Solution #4: Use GParted


[176 votes] Solution #6: Make the colour bar the dominant tool


[83 votes] Solution #7: A variety of smart options


[85 votes] Solution #9: Display info about directories & their purpose


[-23 votes] Solution #10: Enhance & Simply GParted Functionalities


[7 votes] Solution #11: bring GParted back as an option


[27 votes] Solution #13: Alert new users to benefits of separate /home partition


[5 votes] Solution #14: Simplified option for manual partitioning.


[5 votes] Solution #15: Add LVM and RAID Support


[3 votes] Solution #16: Automatically quick benchmark disks and recommend partition scheme


]]> en-us Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:24:59 +0000 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 06:54:25 +0000 QAPoll module http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/19218/ #4 also would be good, as gparted is much more rational, logical and representative, than fancy installation partitioner.]]> Wed, 15 Apr 2009 05:54:23 +0000 Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:14:53 +0000 Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:59:43 +0000
common user doesn't even know what a partition is!

what about using a name convention?

/ = "System"
/home = "User"
/var = "Auxiliary"
/tmp = "Temporary"

etc...]]> Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:57:10 +0000 Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:25:36 +0000 Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:28:12 +0000 The default actually leaves existing partitions and resizes them to make room for ubuntu.
solution #3:
A beginer doesn't even need to go into the advanced partitioning. There's a reason the basic options are there.]]> Sat, 18 Apr 2009 19:45:31 +0000
Maybe light/dark colors could be used to avoid this.]]> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:10:55 +0000
So please stop and think a little for one time, by god !]]> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 23:32:23 +0000 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:35:05 +0000
Besides, one doesn't use an installation cd for long -- you install the operating system and then you're done. If it is an inconvenience, it doesn't last long. However, if it becomes a large problem, I think a great solution would be to have the current configuration enabled by default and if you want to change the color coding, you can do so with a dropdown menu or radiobutton.]]> Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:04:47 +0000 Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:17:28 +0000 The ability to setup RAID "automatically" when the installer detect 2 or more HDDs.

I am aware that Unbuntu does let you set this up at runtime... if you know what you are doing. It would be a great convenience facto to the user to just set this up for them. For starters lets say "Choose Mirroring or Striping" with a basic definition for each. Thoughts? ]]> Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:10:43 +0000

The idea of using gparted directly into the system, although I think it is a nice and interesting, I have some uncertainty because it's an environment with more functionality and, potentially, more complex.

This is why I preferred not to vote yet the solution #4.]]> Sat, 02 May 2009 06:56:24 +0000 Sat, 02 May 2009 18:23:29 +0000 Thu, 07 May 2009 11:17:59 +0000
If he didn't wanted to do complex stuff, there was the "use free space" option.]]> Thu, 07 May 2009 13:38:10 +0000 Thu, 07 May 2009 15:21:18 +0000
-1]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2009 03:38:14 +0000
If you split it up into more then 1 partition, the users then need to resize partitions, which isn't the safest operation to perform!]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2009 03:53:39 +0000