On 1/12/18 6:23 AM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 12:14:40PM -0500, Default User wrote: >> I often see people recommend a separate home partition. >> But why would (or not) that be better than just a home directory within >> the root directory? >> Wouldn't one less partition be simpler, and therefore (all other things >> being equal) better? >> Opinions, please. > > The main reasons for a separate home partition are to share it between > multiple installations in a multi-boot scenario and/or to allow for easy > re-installation of the OS while preserving everything under /home. > > If neither of those apply, then a separate home partition is not > especially beneficial. Two others for me: 1. some dodgy software writing in my home directory can't fill up the root filesystem (also, probably moreso, applies to /var(/log)) 2. backup utilities can usually be told to stop at filesystem boundaries, which can be simpler than writing explicit exclude lists etc. Richard
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