Re: [Trisquel-users] Home Directory in Dedicated Partition, Pros & Cons?

[teodorescup]

You don't need to reformat when you install a GNU/Linux system, unless  
obviously there were filesystem issues or you're not happy with the  
partitioning scheme.  When I do a clean install I just boot a live  
environment, mount the filesystem, rename the home directory to home.old,  
delete everything else from the root partition (and boot partition), and  
install without checking to format the partition for root.
If you're not distro-hopping one partition should suffice, and if you use  
encryption 2.
I use 3, for /boot, for LUKS_/ and for image files (.iso) so I'll won't need  
to boot from CD or USB when I need so.