Anthony Campbell wrote:
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.
Yeah for expert users - who can use the manual partitioning method.I used to seperate /home as a matter of principle until it struck me that I ran into disk problems (too little space on / or /home interchangeably) far more often than I trashed my partition.