Hi Scott On Tue, Oct 21, 2025 at 12:22 PM Scott Vargovich <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm currently running Manjaro and have many years of Linux experience > behind me. For a number of reasons, I would like to try OpenBSD. I > know I will have to unlearn a number of Linux things over time.
Not a huge amount, but there are a few idiosyncrasies between BSD and Linux. > I've only ever installed OpenBSD in a virtual environment and have > accepted almost all of the defaults during the installation process. > I would like to know if the default partitioning scheme puts /home on > its own partition so I don't lose what I have in /home if the system > crashes and I need to reinstall. Would that even be an issue I > need to be concerned about? When the disk is >2.5GB in size (as of -current), the default partitioning scheme will put /home on its own partition. Hope this helps! -- Aaron Mason - Programmer, open source addict I've taken my software vows - for beta or for worse
