Jerome R. Westrick wrote:
On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 04:37, C Hamel wrote:
On 21:52 Thu 28 Oct , James Knott wrote:
Backup the directory, then next time you install, create a /home partition.
Okay, People...
I'm almost scared to ask 'cuase it seams like a holy grail type thing with you guys, but.....
In the old days (before linux had decent file systems) you made separate partitions incase one of the other partions got trashed, it would not trash your data... (Note that it was usually the system partiions that got trashed...)
Now-a-days the file systems don't get trashed right?
Therefore the reason for having seperate partiitons has disappeared?
Or am I missing something?
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.