In response to a unrelated post to a LUG, I was asked if I had a
separate /home directory. Short answer -- no.
I abandoned WinXP when Jessie had become stable.
The installer defaults {I assume for cause} to putting every thing on
one partition/directory.
Where may I read about pros/cons ?
TIA
Pros to keeping same partition together
Pros: less hassle
Cons: if your / partition drive fails, it takes /home with it
Separate partitions
Pros: if your / partition drive fails, it does not take /home with it
Pros: easier to run multiple distros
Cons: more hassle
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I, not only have a separate /home directory but, if the Hard Drive is large
enough, will create things, like /bighome, /oldhome (just before installing
a new Release), as well other variations, to handle the "Issue de jour".
Why? Because /home is where my "personal data" is stored, and I don't wa
Richard Owlett composed on 2018-07-06 14:47 (UTC-0500):
> In response to a unrelated post to a LUG, I was asked if I had a
> separate /home directory. Short answer -- no.
> I abandoned WinXP when Jessie had become stable.
> The installer defaults {I assume for cause} to putting every thing on
>
On 06/07/18 01:54 PM, Matthew Crews wrote:
Pros to keeping same partition together
Pros: less hassle
Cons: if your / partition drive fails, it takes /home with it
Separate partitions
Pros: if your / partition drive fails, it does not take /home with it
Pros: easier to run multiple distros
Cons:
On Fri, 6 Jul 2018 15:47:37 -0500
Richard Owlett wrote:
> In response to a unrelated post to a LUG, I was asked if I had a
> separate /home directory. Short answer -- no.
>
> I abandoned WinXP when Jessie had become stable.
> The installer defaults {I assume for cause} to putting every thing on
On 07/06/2018 07:40 PM, ntrfug wrote:
On Fri, 6 Jul 2018 15:47:37 -0500
Richard Owlett wrote:
In response to a unrelated post to a LUG, I was asked if I had a
separate /home directory. Short answer -- no.
I abandoned WinXP when Jessie had become stable.
The installer defaults {I assume for ca
Le 07/07/2018 à 00:12, Felix Miata a écrit :
The only significant drawback is when the disk size is small it can be
problematic to determine optimum sizes for the separate space allocations.
LVM is your friend in such situation. Extending a logical volume is easy.
Pascal Hambourg composed on 2018-07-07 15:34 (UTC+0200):
> Felix Miata composed:
>> The only significant drawback is when the disk size is small it can be
>> problematic to determine optimum sizes for the separate space allocations.
> LVM is your friend in such situation.
Not my friend. Partiti
On Sat 07 Jul 2018 at 08:04:16 (-0400), cyaiplexys wrote:
> On 07/06/2018 07:40 PM, ntrfug wrote:
> >The home directory contains not only "personal data" but configuration
> >directories for all your apps.
> >
> >I long ago settled on a middle-of-the-road solution--I have a partition
> >mounted on
On 07/06/2018 03:47 PM, Richard Owlett wrote:
In response to a unrelated post to a LUG, I was asked if I had a
separate /home directory. Short answer -- no.
I abandoned WinXP when Jessie had become stable.
The installer defaults {I assume for cause} to putting every thing on
one partition/dire
On 7/6/18, ntrfug wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Jul 2018 15:47:37 -0500
> Richard Owlett wrote:
>
>> In response to a unrelated post to a LUG, I was asked if I had a
>> separate /home directory. Short answer -- no.
>>
>> I abandoned WinXP when Jessie had become stable.
>> The installer defaults {I assume fo
On 2018-07-08 13:47, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 07/06/2018 03:47 PM, Richard Owlett wrote:
In response to a unrelated post to a LUG, I was asked if I had a
separate /home directory. Short answer -- no.
I abandoned WinXP when Jessie had become stable.
The installer defaults {I assume for cause} t
On Sat, Jul 07, 2018 at 08:35:51PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> On Sat 07 Jul 2018 at 08:04:16 (-0400), cyaiplexys wrote:
> > I used to have a separate /home directory back in the day. But I
> > realized that anytime I wanted to reinstall or redo my system
> > (upgrade major version seems to work b
On Fri, Jul 06, 2018 at 04:54:53PM -0400, Matthew Crews wrote:
Separate partitions
Pros: if your / partition drive fails, it does not take /home with it
You are conflating drives and partitions, here. Both partitions could be
on the same physical drive, and a drive failure would affect both in
On Sun 08 Jul 2018 at 07:47:48 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 07/06/2018 03:47 PM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> >In response to a unrelated post to a LUG, I was asked if I had a
> >separate /home directory. Short answer -- no.
> >
> >I abandoned WinXP when Jessie had become stable.
> >The installer
On 7/10/18 3:28 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 06, 2018 at 04:54:53PM -0400, Matthew Crews wrote:
>> Separate partitions
>> Pros: if your / partition drive fails, it does not take /home with it
>
> You are conflating drives and partitions, here. Both partitions could be
> on the same ph
On 07/11/2018 01:10 AM, debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote:
On 7/10/18 3:28 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
On Fri, Jul 06, 2018 at 04:54:53PM -0400, Matthew Crews wrote:
Separate partitions
Pros: if your / partition drive fails, it does not take /home with it
You are conflating dri
On 07/10/2018 01:28 PM, David Wright wrote:
[snip]
Is it a big enough topic to deserve a whole article? I would expect
articles on partitioning to mention it in passing, as for example:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/partitioning
That, with the benefit of article it references, is exactly
On 07/10/2018 03:11 PM, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 07/10/2018 01:28 PM, David Wright wrote:
[snip]
Is it a big enough topic to deserve a whole article? I would expect
articles on partitioning to mention it in passing, as for example:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/partitioning
That, with t
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