On Mi, 12 sep 12, 17:53:41, Weaver wrote: > > I would be an advocate of at least a separate /home partition in the > 'Newbie Install'. How big? IMVHO a separate /home partition[1] makes sense now[2] only if one can make reasonable guesses about future use. I got it wrong several times and so have many others. If you think initial partitioning during the install is difficult just think about how difficult it will be to repartition later. And no, LVM doesn't really make things easier either for someone who has no idea about partitions. [1] actually a separate anything [2] this might have been different in the early days of *nix, but those days are gone. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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