Partition Suggestions

[Martin Schmitz]

Lex Hider schrieb:
> On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 16:11 -0500, azz wrote:
>> For a desktop, there is no big reason to use more than one partition. 
> 
> Personally I like to have separate / and /home partitions so that I can
> do a re-install or clean install of subsequent versions or even
> different distros and keep existing settings and data on my home
> partition.

Nobody forces you to "format" your /-partition when doing a fresh
install. You could delete all other directories then home an reinstall
without creating a new filesystem. So, from this point of view, there is
really no reason today to split a workstations harddisk in several
partitions.

Martin