Feature suggestions: optionally placing home folder into separate partition during ubuntu install

[Joao Pinto]

On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Daniel Gross <daniel.gross at utoronto.ca>wrote:

> Hello Phill,
>
> I think you can compare the benefit of having user folder on a separate
> partition to users having a backup.
>
> Most of the time a user does not need the backup. But when the
> unforeseen event occurs that requires a restore, then those users who
> have a backup will clearly benefit.
>
> Similarly, those users who loose access to the boot partition (such as
> due to a hard disk crash) will clearly benefit from having the data on a
> separate partition. At last in my case i could have restored a working
> system much more easily without data loss.
>
> In the future when bandwidth will increase and off site backup of all
> data stored on a, say, 300 GB hard drive become common, then i guess a
> separate data partition will lose its necessity.
>
>
> thanks,
>
> Daniel
>
>
Daniel,
having a separate partition for /home does not not improve data protection
in any way, it does not provide backups and the data access is not isolated.

Your case would not be better with a different partition, whatever caused
you the ext4 corruption could happen to your home partition as well, or
both.

For disaster situations like yours (unrecoverable file system corruption) a
proper solution is to have backups.

-- 
João Luís Marques Pinto
GetDeb Team Leader
http://www.getdeb.net
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