Separate /home partition

[Colin Law]

On 13 November 2010 20:33, Jordon Bedwell <jordon at envygeeks.com> wrote:
> 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.

Why?  Given the fact that one can re-install or install a different
version over an existing one without loosing /home, whether it is a
partition or a directory, what is the advantage of it being on a
separate partition?

Colin

> 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.
>
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