Ok.. so for an "intermediate" user such as myself who does not want to lose data on upgrade, is it OK to put /home on a seperate partition? Only other OS is Windows, on a seperate HDD.. :) thanks, JON On 8/27/05, Andreas Girardet <agirardet@novell.com> wrote:
On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 2:26 am, in message <4310782B.8010800@addcom.de>, nordi@addcom.de wrote: Andreas Girardet wrote: I do agree totally. The default are the ones the user sees. /home is crucial. The question here is: How big should the /home partition be? Sounds trivial, but there is no 100% solution that will fit all the needs. For some users, a 10GB /home may be much too small. For me, 1GB would be absolutely enough, since I store the remaining gigabytes on my windows partition anyway, so I can also easily access my data with windows.
Whatever automatic setup you choose, there will always be some people complaining because it does not fit their needs! IMHO _not_ creating a special /home seems to be the best compromise that will create the least problems.
So what exactly would the difference be to having / and /home on the same partition then?
Most people who would complain are probably the ones who actually know what a partition is. Those people are the ones I assum can also cklick into the partitioner and set it up the way they wand (as I do). The normal user has no idea what a partition is and that is the one which has to be catered for with the normal default settings IMHO.
Also /boot should be reinstated since grub has been playing up on some systems of mine with the silly 1024 limit!
I agree on /boot, although for a different reason. A friend of mine had a Suse system. One time it crashed and after that not even grub would start! Turned out his file system for / had some corruptions cause by the crash that prevented grub from reading /boot/grub/menu.lst. As a result, he couldn't even start windows! With /boot on a seperate partition this could not happen, since /boot is hardly ever written to.
interesting ... certainly another reason for a seperate /boot/
Regards,
Andreas
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