29 Oct
2004
29 Oct
'04
13:43
The reason for a separate /home partition, is so that user data deosn't get clobbered, during an install. If your /home was on the same partition as / and you reformated during install, your data would be lost. Some people also like to mount /var on it's own partition, so that it won't use up all avaiable disk space, with overflowing logs etc.
I seriously need to do this on my laptop -- It's my Linux "test" box, and end up having to copy things to my desktop first, then install, copy them back... Picking a good "size" for the /home part on a 9-gig dirve though is one of those things I just can't decide on :)