Re: What is the advantage of separate /home partition
Originally Posted by
oldfred
But once you start putting most data in data partition(s), then a separate /home has less utility. I am back to including /home in my / (root) but have all data in separate data partitions.
^^^ Ditto. Even though on this laptop I have a separate "home", by doing regular backups using lucky or grsync it makes it rather redundant as a complete backed up "home" is on another partition or drive anyway.
I had a slight hickup doing a fresh install of 12.04 from 10.04 and keeping my current separate "home" caused some issues. I was able to sort it out but when I did a complete fresh install of xubuntu 12.04,on my desktop (server), I nuked the HD completely and had my home in "/". I just brought any backed up data over, from another drive, and had no issues at all. Turned out to be much faster and easier. So from now on, I won't use a separate "home" as I don't really need it.
Colin
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