/home partition location

[Kim Briggs]

On 3/30/08, elmo <elmo at ne.rr.com> wrote:
> If you had two hard drives installed,  would you place a /home partition
>  on a separate hard drive instead of the same hard drive as the ubuntu
>  installation?  Reason?
>
>  How about a /swap partition?
>
>  Would it make any difference if it was a logical or extended partition?

If you have two hard drives that have enough space, I would recommend
making one of them a backup disk and using rsync.  I'm just so darn
happy with this setup.  Not for an enterprise datacenter, but it works
great at home:

http://kimbriggs.com/computers/computer-notes/linux-notes/samba-setup-ubuntu704-guide.file

That said, the big advantage of making a separate *partition* for
/home would be that you can reinstall the O/S in the non-home
partition over and over again.

cheers,
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