On 20/11/2018 12:15, jdd@dodin.org wrote:
well, that is a bit of a simplification.
/home do not hold only user data, it holds also application metadata (configs, some logs...) that can't be safely shared between distros, even distro versions.
This is not true. /home is a filesystem. It is not any user's home directory. That is /home/$something. The *purpose* of /home is to be shared by multiple users, each with their own subdirectory. The complete path often should not be shared, that is correct. But so long as each version or distro has different user account names, sharing /home is perfectly fine. E.g. I append the initials of the distro or desktop to the username -- so "liamu" for Ubuntu, "liamf" for Fedora, "liams" for openSUSE. Then those 3 very different distros share the same /home partition perfectly happily.
So What I do and advise most people to do at least on personal computers (=used mostly by only one people) is to have root (/), /home and some sort of /data.
Only /data holds really data, that is text files, photos, videos... and should have it's own partition.
That works too. In fact I normally make it an NTFS drive so I can share my data directories with Windows too.
in this context, having / and /home on the same partition is perfectly correct an I do it often.
It works. I strongly prefer the flexibility of having it elsewhere. When I came back to the SUSE world last year, I found the default filesystems (btrfs for /, XFS for /home) a little odd and they caused me problems with dual-booting with Ubuntu, but fair enough, openSUSE's choices have long been unusual - I remember when it defaulted to ReiserFS. At least it defaulted to a separate /home which I regarded as far more important than it what it was formatted as, and still do. Later I discovered that I could not shrink an XFS volume to add a 2nd distro to a particular machine, which was a pain, but not critical. -- Liam Proven - Technical Writer, SUSE Linux s.r.o. Corso II, Křižíkova 148/34, 186-00 Praha 8 - Karlín, Czechia Email: lproven@suse.com - Office telephone: +420 284 241 084 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org