<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 9:55 PM, Ashutosh Rishi Ranjan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ashutoshrishi92@gmail.com">ashutoshrishi92@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> A general query:<div>Is there any performance difference if the /home is on a different partition compared to the whole hierarchy being on the same partition?<br clear="all">Further,</div><div>The applications I install (from the software centre, or the deb, or by aptitude), do they take up space in the /home partition or somewhere else. Currently, I have the /home on a different partition than the root. I am left with only 1 GB of free space in the partition containing the '/' and am thinking of combining the partitions and reinstalling as one single hierarchy. <br> </div></blockquote><div>All the stuff you install (using the repository ) rests in the / partition. It generally does not have any performance degradation/improvement even if you have the home directories mounted in the same partition. Generally the speed of the / is critical since the entire os and all the applications are present there. <br> <br>Also if you havent tried it yet, you should see how much of your apt installation is still cached. It is likely that a sizable amount of space on your / is taken by /var/apt/cache, which you can clean up using sudo aptitude clean.<br> - Nandan<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div> -- <br>Ashutosh Rishi<br>Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish<br> </div> <br>--<br> ubuntu-in mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in</a><br> <br></blockquote></div><br>