Separate /home partition

[Jordon Bedwell]

On Sat, 2010-11-13 at 21:12 +0000, Colin Law wrote:
> 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?

Because that's the /only/ thing that matters when it comes to
information integrity on information systems...