What an amazing concept!.../home on it's own partition

[stuart.reinke]

I know this is nothing new, but I just recently got confident enough with partitioning during installation to set up things manually.

I have a bad habit of tweaking my system until I break it. My preferred course of action is to reinstall and start over tweaking again.:)

With /home on a separate partition, all my data, downloads, and settings remain in tact.

I think this is my new favorite feature in Linux.

I guess I have no question for anyone to answer so I'll just invite comment on the subject.

[dragos240]

I know this is nothing new, but I just recently got confident enough with partitioning during installation to set up things manually.

I have a bad habit of tweaking my system until I break it. My preferred course of action is to reinstall and start over tweaking again.:)

With /home on a separate partition, all my data, downloads, and settings remain in tact.

I think this is my new favorite feature in Linux.

I guess I have no question for anyone to answer so I'll just invite comment on the subject.

Enjoy. Make sure to edit /etc/fstab accordingly!

[stuart.reinke]

Enjoy. Make sure to edit /etc/fstab accordingly!

please explain. what is /ect/fstab and what needs to be edited and why?

[gs777]

u just used a feature of linux

[dragos240]

please explain. what is /ect/fstab and what needs to be edited and why?

If you are using ubuntu, then you don't need to. However many distros need to have the fstab edited when partitioning is done. fstab is a config file that tells your linux system what to mount at boot and where to mount it.

[stuart.reinke]

If you are using ubuntu, then you don't need to. However many distros need to have the fstab edited when partitioning is done. fstab is a config file that tells your linux system what to mount at boot and where to mount it.

I see, thanks. I am using Ubuntu so that's probably why I didn't know about it or what it is for.

[castrojo]

With /home on a separate partition, all my data, downloads, and settings remain in tact.

You know the installer has an option to do a clean install while keeping your /home intact already right? No need for a separate partition. ;)

FWIW, I keep my /home on a separate drive entirely, which is pretty handy.

[stuart.reinke]

You know the installer has an option to do a clean install while keeping your /home intact already right? No need for a separate partition. ;)

FWIW, I keep my /home on a separate drive entirely, which is pretty handy.

I've never seen that. Probably looked past it a hundred times. Where is it?

[pelle.k]

With /home on a separate partition, all my data, downloads, and settings remain in tact.

I've done that for years. However, i don't save my home when reinstalling. It's just that i like to keep it separated from the rest of the system, in case i fill up my home, the system disk still hums along nicely.

That said, i always keep a data partition that spans almost the whole HD, where i keep my stuff (organized with subfolders, of course). Back in the days, i had to add it after an install (in /etc/fstab), but nowadays, i can just add it manually in the installer.
Even if one doesn't add it during an install, gnome can mount it for you when you click it. There's a downside to the latter method though - if such a partition has say a .jpg that you use as a background image, said partition has to be mounted before gnome starts up, naturally.

[macogw]

I've never seen that. Probably looked past it a hundred times. Where is it?

Go into Manual Partitioning, tell it to use the same / partition as before, and tell it not to format.

[Bachstelze]

u just used a feature of linux

Pretty much every modern OS has that feature. Yes, even Windows since at least XP.

[chriswyatt]

I used to do the same thing with Windows, I used to keep Windows setup and My Documents / Desktop on a separate partition, made clean installing Windows much less of a headache :).