Separate /home partition

[Mark]

On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 6:41 AM, Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Thanks Nils (and the others who responded).
>
> In the end I followed your advice and used the whole disk by accepting
> all the defaults.
>
Ah, well, I was going to point out that the biggest advantage to a
separate /home is that when you update or upgrade to a newer release
of the same OS, you don't have to worry about losing all your /home
data even if you have to reinstall the OS.  I went through that going
from CentOS 4 to 5 and it was nice not to have to be picky and careful
with /home when I overwrote /boot and /.

But, I should have posted this earlier and if you're comfortable with
your configuration, great.  These are things that can always be
changed later, even if it's more tricky/painful after the fact.

Ciao.

Mark