reinstalling ubuntu 12.10

[Ioannis Vranos]

Yes, keeping the settings (especially of many users), during upgrades,
is a reason for a separate /home partition.

Multiuser production systems also need a separate /temp partition, etc.

This is why I said "for some specific reason".


Usually, home users do not need separate partitions.


Ioannis Vranos

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On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 10:21 PM, Phill Whiteside <phillw at vpolink.com> wrote:
> Hi loannis,
>
> back in the crazy days it was advised to have a seperate /home. Whether this
> is still valid these days? Pass... would I ever forgo my seperate /home
> partition? Never :)
> You can do some crazy things, and bad things can happen to good machines. I
> have always preferred my "home (i.e personal data) for my desktop system on
> its' own partition. Whilst an upgrade of your system is designed to leave
> /home alone. If you have to re-install because it is so badly broken, the
> installer will not preserve your /home unless it is in a seperate partition.
> It is for each to decide.
>
> Regards,
>
> Phill.
>
>
>
>
> On 8 April 2013 19:41, Ioannis Vranos <ioannis.vranos at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> If you do not need separate partitions for some specific reason, I
>> suggest install Lubuntu in one / partition, along with a swap
>> partition ( it is the default Lubuntu installation).
>>
>>
>> Ioannis Vranos
>>
>> http://www.cppsoftware.net
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Paul Sutton <zleap at zleap.net> wrote:
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > I need to re-install Lubuntu cleanly,  my current system is dual boot
>> > with linpus,   which is never used,   the rest of the system was ubuntu
>> > which via apt-get install lubuntu-dekstop now runs that hence i may have
>> > previosuly referred to this as hybrid.
>> >
>> > http://zleap.net/reinstall-of-lubuntu/
>> >
>> > as you can see from the disk utility the file system is a MESS
>> >
>> > is the best way to go about reinstalling simply to wipe the whole hard
>> > disk and start over
>> >
>> > in which case 250 gb hard disk
>> >
>> > split as
>> >
>> > /boot / 1 GB
>> > /home 90 GB  (approx)
>> > / 149 GB (approx)
>> > /swap about 4 - 8 gb (2gb ram)
>> >
>> >
>> > Currently using just over 50gb for /home (this WILL be backed up)
>> >
>> > Where does steam install games to ? the main file system or in
>> > /home/user this will determine how much I allocate to /home or /
>> >
>> > the only person using this system is ME and there is an external HDD
>> >
>> > Paul
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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