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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Andreas Girardet wrote:
JBScout [Thomas Lodewick] wrote: please, don't. using a special partiton for home will immediatly get you in troubles if you use more than one Linux on the same computer (and with the same /home).
It might, indeed. On the other hand, it's also a very interesting option for upgrading. That's usually how I do it: - - create a new partition (ok, I have LVM everywhere, so that's pretty easy) - - do a fresh install of the new SUSE release on that partition - - specify my separate /home partition to be mounted on /home - - reboot, test if everything works as expected - - and maybe remove the old version But even for people who don't proceed that way, to me the pros and cons of having a separate /home can be summarized like this: + much easier to upgrade with a fresh install (instead of upgrade), which is often the best option when you skip one or two SUSE releases (say, from 9.1 to 10.0) (and I know quite a few people who don't buy/download every single SUSE release, so I don't think that scenario is uncommon) + much easier to change your Linux distribution - certainly something Novell doesn't like to consider but... being a "good citizen" for the user is the better attitude IMHO, this isn't Windows that forces you to format and install over the whole harddisk, whatever is already installed - - might, in some cases, not be a good idea when you have 2 or more Linux installations that are too different and you mount that /home on both (*) - - partition sizing might be unappropriate over time: especially beginners don't know how to size the partitions (say, / and /home) and maybe their /home ends up being too small or too large over time (**) (*) although that's rather something "advanced" users (Andreas, don't use "geek" ;)) would do and I'm pretty sure they know what they are doing if they mount their /home on several Linux installations (**) partition resizing works quite well with ext2/ext3/reiserfs and is very easy to use with YaST2's partitioner, although that's most probably the only real drawback of using a separate partition for /home
Since having muliple Linuxes is a special requirement only quite knowledeable people have,I would assume that such a person would be able to kilcik into the partitioner and choose his/her own partition too. The Indeed.
default setting should be thought for a normal user and such a user would be pretty stuffed without precautions on seperating /home from the rest of the system, IMHO. Such a user is probably not going to be very familiar with partitioning concepts. Yes, that's the point. The partitioning proposal must be targetted at /beginners/, not advanced users.
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