Separate /home partition

[C de-Avillez]

On 11/13/2010 02:20 PM, 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.

Indeed. But this is sort of hidden (or, better, not clear) in the
installer. There was a thread on devel-discuss [1] on that.

On servers, /home should always be a separate filesystem. On personal
desktops, either way is good enough (although, being a paranoid, mine is
always on its own FS).

If you have up-to-date backups, it really does not matter (again, on the
desktop).

Cheers,

[1]
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2010-November/012257.html

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