root and /home partitions

Vram lamsokvr at xprt.net
Fri Jun 3 05:41:49 UTC 2005


alex wrote:

>On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 21:25 +0200, Emil Oppeln-Bronikowski wrote:
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>>On Wednesday 01 of June 2005 21:21, alex wrote:
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>>>Under what condition is
>>>it worth the bother of setting /home in its own partition instead of
>>>leaving it in the system root?
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>> When you own more than one Linux distribution. When you want to protect your 
>>private stuff from getting affected by hard system crashes. Anyway, 
>>installing everything on one partition is not very wise, because then, signle 
>>partition crash can destroy everything you own. I allways split my disk 
>>to /home, /var, /usr and sometimes /boot
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>> Emil Oppeln-Bronikowski, http://bronikowski.com
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>I'm not sure but it sounds like you're saying you can multiple Linuxes
>and have split partitions (/home, /var, /usr, /boot) for each distro.
>That's a lot of partitioning!
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>alex, the OF
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You could....

But, You are right.... It is a  LOT of Work..
Especially for just a toy to play with

Vram

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