On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 04:10 -0700, Weaver wrote: > If you find, in time, that you are running out of drive space, instaal > a bigger drive, install the / and swap and again, allocate the rest > as /home and copy it over. How big should / become? Okay, modern drives have that much capacities that for an empty drive or much unallocated space, simply fifty-fifty should work. But what does argue against having root and home on the same partition?