separate /home by default

[John Richard Moser]

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Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy wrote:
> Please post your replies to the list.
> 

Yours wasn't posted to the list; I simply hit reply-all.  This one is
pointed at the list.

Perhaps you clicked the wrong reply button?

> On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 12:28 -0500, John Richard Moser wrote:
> 
> On Gentoo I keep a 7 gig /
> 
> 
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda1             7.5G  3.9G  3.7G  52% /
> /dev/hda5              28G   26G  2.0G  93% /home
> none                  376M     0  376M   0% /dev/shm
> none                  2.0G  796K  2.0G   1% /tmp
> none                  2.0G   21M  2.0G   1% /var/tmp
> 
> You could imagine my nightmare if I had /home on / and had to reinstall.
> 
> In your case, you had to make a backup of /home.  In any case with /home
> on /, reinstalling often demands backing up /home.  In many cases with a
> split, it doesn't.
> 
> 
> Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy wrote:
>> I have been doing this for years, and now I have only /. I have a
>> question for you, what do you do when you run out of /? When it happened
>> to me the choice was either to make a backup, repartition, reinstall and
>> restore or start descent into symlink hell. For a while I was doing
>> things like /opt/openoffice -> /home/openoffice, but finally got tired
>> of it and reinstalled.
> 
> 
> /opt -> /home/shared/sysdirs/opt
> /usr/src -> /home/shared/sysdirs/usr/src
> 
> Those were the only two I ever had to do; my /usr/src gets bigger
> continuously, and I used to toss tons of stuff (quake3) into /opt
> 
> You always have the option of resizing partitions :)
> 
>> On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 02:16 -0500, John Richard Moser wrote:
> 
>>>swap - 2G (I like it big, and at the beginning so it's faster)
>>>/ - 4G (Ubuntu demands 2G at least)
>>>/home - 54G (all everything)
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