Ubuntu Installation using several partitions

[Romeyn Prescott]

At 10:11 PM -0500 12/3/04, mark scribbled:
>Carthik Sharma Wrote:
>>  Can someone please educate me as to the merits of using a seperate
>>  /home, /boot and / ?
>>  Also, I would love to know the minimum required space for these, and
>>  the best way to partition a 40G drive to use these seperate
>>  partitions.
>>
>>  I have /home on the same partition as /. now is there a way to move
>>  /home onto a new partition all of it's own? I guess I want to
>>  repartition my HDD without losing data, is there a good way to do
>>  this?
>>
>>  thanks,
>>  Carthik.
>>   In my opinion, it's a matter of safety & decentralization.  By having
>/, /home. etc. on separate partitions, if one of 'em gets bollixed up,
>that's the only one you lose.  For example, my system currently looks
>like:
>

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Personally, I always have /home on a separate drive.  It makes it 
easy to move all my stuff to another box if I have to.  Or keep it 
all if I change distros someday.

...ROMeyn
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