On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 11:35 PM, Kevin Korb <k...@sanitarium.net> wrote: >> I just moved my home partition to a new harddisk w/more space. > > Home Partition? Are we in 1995? Why would you have a partition > mounted anywhere other than /boot ?
That's a bit harsh, particularly considering that having a /home partition never really stopped being useful. Having a separate partition for user files means that if one (of potentially many) user(s) fills up the /home partition, the machine's OS files don't get messed up when written to, as a painful side effect. Both kinds of write failures are bad, but they needn't be concomitant. Also, some people might just have multiple disks in the same system; or be using a network filesystem like NFS, CIFS, sshfs, &c. -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
