root and /home partitions

[david]

On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 21:25 +0200, Emil Oppeln-Bronikowski wrote:
> 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?
> 
If you mess up your root partition and your home partition is on a
separate partition you can reinstall the root partition and home is
waiting for you as it was before the problem arose. It means you don't
lose your inbox, bookmarks downloads etc etc etc.
Makes life much easier.

nux