default partition scheme without /home - why ?

[James Hubbard]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Felix Miata <mrmazda at ij.net> wrote:
>  I can't imagine a newbie not welcoming the intelligence of a separate /home
>  when they blindly reinstall after screwing something up, like an upgrade to a
>  newer version 6 months later, shortly followed by trying again with reformat
>  of /. You think most people, particularly the clueless, actually have backups
>  of their personal data? If you do I think you're dreaming of utopia.

I don't understand.  Do you expect the installer to protect the user
from formatting an already formatted partition?  Doesn't the installer
already warn you that formatting an already formatted partition you'll
lose data?  Would this mean that when doing an install/re-install that
the installation would not format a /home partition by default? It's
been a few months since I've installed so I don't remember what the
default behavior is.