Basil Chupin said the following on 08/09/2012 08:26 AM:
I am not that there is any useful mileage to be gained from having a separate /usr partition but there is usefullness in creating a separate partition called, say, /data to contain some of the directories/folders normally kept in your /home directory. Doing this you can install/re-install your oS by formatting your partitions except for /swap and /data without first haivng to backup your /home directory (or rather the important files in it).
Indeed, and you can symlink (or mount -B) from ~/MyDocuments, ~/MyDownloads, ~/MyMedia, ~/MyMail and so on. Actually I have separate partitions for all those :-) Regular readers will recall that I use LVM so creating more as those containers fill up (~/MyMedia/Music, ~/MyMedia/Photos, ...) is not a problem. Search the archives for the benefits of using LVM with RAID.
Doing this also makes it possible for other distro installations to access /data/Symed/ folders - Thunderbird installed on, say, openSUSE 12.1 can be access by openSUSE 12.2 and later by 12.3 when I install that. You get the picture :-) .
Or, as I do, put it on the file server and use NFS ... No really; my file server is a craqqed out old Dell but I can do the 'thin client' thing ... -- "I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught". -- Winston Churchill -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org