Separate partitions have advantages such that if you bork or have a partition go bad you still have /usr, /home and maybe some others intact. Also /home on a separate parititon lets you mount it anywhere. I had a system on which a drive failed and I was able to move the parititions on it to another drive and keep going. You can also back up the file systems separately.
It's really up to you. I like to keep things separate for the reasons above. On my Gentoo I have /boot, /, /home, /usr and /files (for storing files). > Dear Jean, > > I had the same wishes when I wanted to install Gentoo, and I agree with > you that the directions to have separate /usr, /home and /var partitions > weren't clear. I gave up on trying to have separate partitions after I > went thru the whole install only to have problems mounting them at boot.. > in retrospect I am more comfortable with mounting these days to have > handled it all. That's my opinion anyway. > > Anyway, anyone have any advice beyond what is in the install guide? > > Simon > > On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Jean Magnan wrote: > > Hi all, > > I am planning to install gentoo instead of some other distro; I read the > > doc but found nothing about having more than /boot and / partitions. I > > wish to install at least a /home partition. > > What would do? > > Thx, > > -- > > Jean Magnan de Bornier > > > > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Brett I. Holcomb AKA Grunt <>< -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
