On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Nick Holland <[email protected]> wrote: > Daniel Malament wrote: >> On 10/22/2009 5:37 AM, William Boshuck wrote: >>>> And here I thought I remembered the new installer being described as easier to use. >> >>> It is. Were it not so quick it would be positively >>> boring. Just don't set mount points for the partitions >> >> Perhaps I should clarify: IMO, not double-checking with the user about >> what specifically to wipe, especially when it used to, is a step back in >> 'usability' (in the Jakob Nielsen sense) - or to put it another way, >> user-friendliness. > > I presume you are talking about this question: > > The next step *DESTROYS* all existing data on these partitions! > Are you really sure that you're ready to proceed? [no] y > > This question was asked AFTER you had fdisk'd and disklabled your > disk. By this point, the data had been already potentially destroyed, > I thought this question quite silly, in that it implies data has been > safe up to this point...no, it hasn't, you have potentially been > destroying things all over the place.
Hey Nick, I don't wish to contradict you here, but ... I usually do installs and never upgrades. So what I do is keep /home out of the mount points in the disklabel stage, go through install, then re-add /home. I recall a while back, I did get to this stage and agreed to proceed and as the partitions were being newfs-ed I realized I had forgotten and included /home in the list. I ^C out before the /home slice was reached. I restarted the install, this time doing it "correctly", and my data in /home was OK! Might have been a fluke ... but, it is what it is. --patrick
