Re: Separate /home directories etc?

[Matthew Crews <mailinglists@mattcrews.com>]

Pros to keeping same partition together
Pros: less hassle
Cons: if your / partition drive fails, it takes /home with it

Separate partitions
Pros: if your / partition drive fails, it does not take /home with it
Pros: easier to run multiple distros
Cons: more hassle


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-------- Original Message --------
On Jul 6, 2018, 13:47, Richard Owlett < rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:
> In response to a unrelated post to a LUG, I was asked if I had a 
> separate /home directory. Short answer -- no.
>
> I abandoned WinXP when Jessie had become stable.
> The installer defaults {I assume for cause} to putting every thing on 
> one partition/directory.
>
> Where may I read about pros/cons ?
> TIA