On 01/06/2021 01:51, Dave Howorth wrote:
On Mon, 31 May 2021 22:07:35 +1200 Robin Klitscher
wrote: After long resisting the idea, I hope to switch from ext4 to btrfs for my next installation, Leap 15.3.
The openSUSE norm is btrfs for / and xfs for /home, each in separate partitions, right? But, in contrast as I understand it, it seems Fedora’s default is for a single btrfs partition for both.
Why the difference? That is, why a separate /home in Leap? And why xfs rather than btrfs anyway?
Personally, I don't think it's important or even necessary to have a separate /home. What I believe is important is to have all of your data under your home directory in a different filesystem. So my home directory /home/dhoworth is in one filesystem, whilst all my documens for example are in /home/dhoworth/Documents/ and that is in a different filesystem. There is a symbolic link from my home directory Documents -> /another-filesystem/Documents and so on for all my directories. The point is that when I upgrade my system, or run another operating system, all my data is available but is completely safe from whatever the upgrade does.
Thank you. That's very useful. It was for fear of a corrupted filesystem that I set up with more than one data partition > 20 years ago, and have stuck with the arrangement ever since. And the caution paid off six months ago when, for reasons undetermined, I did end up with a failed filesystem. But it was only the one, which I was able to recover from backup, while the others remained intact. -- Robin K Wellington "Harbour City" New Zealand