Am 31.05.21 um 15:51 schrieb Dave Howorth:
On Mon, 31 May 2021 22:07:35 +1200 Robin Klitscher <robin.klitscher@gmail.com> wrote: ...
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.
I prefer a separate /home partition, because when upgrading /home is really physically separated. With different partitions /home can be kept small, here 3GB of 10GB, while /home/data is about 2TB. Backup is simpler, too. Peter