root and /home partitions

[Emil Oppeln-Bronikowski]

On Wednesday 01 of June 2005 21:21, alex wrote:

> Under what condition is
> it worth the bother of setting /home in its own partition instead of
> leaving it in the system root?

 When you own more than one Linux distribution. When you want to protect your 
private stuff from getting affected by hard system crashes. Anyway, 
installing everything on one partition is not very wise, because then, signle 
partition crash can destroy everything you own. I allways split my disk 
to /home, /var, /usr and sometimes /boot

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 Emil Oppeln-Bronikowski, http://bronikowski.com