BTW, if people really want this sort of thing done, they should start
submitting patches to sysinst. NetBSD is a user supported OS after
all...

.pm

Alex writes:
>  
> : > ... or sysinst could have included /home in the standard partition layout
.
> : 
> : That's putting _far_ too much policy into sysinst than I would like to
> : see.
> 
> Leaving the user in control is the right thing.  OTOH, inexperienced
> system administrators may not be cognizant of the issues.  How about
> adding a routine to sysinst such that if the user creates a / of
> roughlly the default suggested size or less, and a /usr of whatever
> ix left after / and swap*, sysinst asks the user:
> 
>      Warning / may be too small a partition to usefully hold user 
>      home directories.  Would you like to make /home a symbolic link 
>      to /usr/home (y/n)?
> 
> (That is, if and only if both conditions hold: the assumption being
> that if she's changed the default for the second partition and not 
> called it /usr, she has a clue)
> 
> ---Alex
> 
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