Arch Linux

Referring to /arch/setup $Id: setup,v 1.131 2007/01/03 23:04:33 tpowa Exp $

I'm afraid this was deliberate, but I'm not too happy with it; When choosing Auto-Prepare, sfdisk bombs if the HDD cannot accomodate the hardcoded 7.5GB root partition, and the resulting system would be a pain to use if the HDD was just a little larger, as /home would end up being annoyingly small.

I personally use *a lot* of hard disks up to "only" 8GB in size, as anything above 4GB is well enough to be set up as a desktop machine, especially in heavily networked environments, so please reconsider the necessity of this arbitrary enforcement of a minimum HDD size of 10-15GB for installation of a self-proclaimed lean and mean distribution (hint, hint!).

Yes, I know it's possible to avoid this problem by manually partitioning. That's why severity is low. ;)

If you're still convinced splitting / and /home this way during Auto-Prepare is better, I'll modify the documentation accordingly, but to me it seems more sensible to make Auto-Prepare use a less distributed partition layout (ie. only create /boot and /), avoid the size problem altogether, and let users bother about a seperate /home if they *knowingly* choose to.

I'm not going to start a discussion here, it's mostly cosmetical and a matter of taste anyway. "Document or revert" is the question!