Re: Sarge install thoughts...
On 11 Feb 2005, Jon Dowland wrote:
> Bob wrote:
>
> >For a desktop machine is the
> >three partitions recommended by the guided option of /, /swap and /home
> >enough...?
>
> Personally I'd say that was one too many. There's not much to suggest a
> seperate /home partition is necessary for a desktop machine.
>
[snip]
Not necessary but desirable I think. If you do something disastrous to /
and have to reinstall you feel happier if /home is on a separate
partition. The same applies to /usr/local, I think.
Anthony
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