As a matter of fact if the installer is able to recognize the home folder having /home separated in another partition is not necessary anymore. The advantage respect having the /home separated, specifically for a desktop use are noteworthy.
If the installer, instead of creating /, /home and swap, creates just / and a swap file and if is able to reinstall itself without overwriting the home folder I think is a huge improvement. As a matter of fact if you reinstall Debian, even with /home in another partition, there is not any assisted aid that explain you how to properly setup the /home partition. Having the system partitioned is already a setup for advanced user.
Thanks, D. On 9/27/19 6:45 PM, Geert Stappers wrote:
On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 05:19:06PM -0400, Daniel wrote:Holger Wansing wrote:The debian-installer supports similar use case via the "separate partition for /home" approach.to reinstall Debian on top of itself without overwriting the home partition.Yes, that is what Holger is telling. Groeten Geert Stappers