Re: Sarge install thoughts...
On Friday 11 February 2005 06:14, 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.
Bunk.
/home is the only important separation for a desktop machine (obviously beyond
swap, duh). Try to explain to a former Windows person the advantages of
having to backup ALL of your "My Documents" stuff before you reinstall Linux
(if there was a problem). Yeah, no. Experts can obviously choose their own
partitioning scheme.
/home is vital to beginners and makes fixing problems much, much easier. I
guess you have never had to walk someone 1200 miles away through a
reinstall...imagine having to explain how to backup files first to removable
media, etc.
Much easier to just NOT format /home in the install...and with hard drives
coming in hundreds of gb, I just don't see an issue with "space"...
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