Separate /home partition

[Jordon Bedwell]

On Sat, 2010-11-13 at 20:20 +0000, Alan Pope wrote:
> You don't have to have a separate /home partition to reinstall and not
> lose your data in /home. A standard Ubuntu install from the live cd
> has (for some time now) supported the ability to choose 'manual
> partition' and so long as you don't tick 'format' the installer will
> delete everything _except_ the contents of /home before doing the
> install.

But lets all just admit it's bad systems design to not put /home on a
separate drive or partition.  Regardless of how much tolerance Ubuntu
may have, it doesn't make it a good idea to follow the *what is meant to
be* simplistic user concept.

I've fired people for less.  I'll admit that right off the bat.