: > ... 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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