re-install

[Colin Law]

On 18 March 2013 16:21, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 18 March 2013 16:16, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Correct, but for someone in the situation the OP was in, wanting to
>> re-install but without separate home partition, it is a good way to
>> go.
>
> The OP specifically said that they wanted to go to a separate /home layour.

Yes, but the reason he gave was so that he would not have to backup
and restore /home.  I was pointing out that in fact /home can be
preserved over a re-install without having a separate partition.

>
>>  Also not everyone thinks that a separate home partition is
>> necessarily a good idea.  Myself for example.  Having flicked
>> backwards and forwards over the years I have come the conclusion that
>> (for me) it is not worth the (slight) extra hassle.
>
> You should of course choose what suits you best, but personally, I see
> no extra hassle /whatsoever./

The main hassle I have had is that I never seemed to get the partition
sizes right and ended up having to resize them.  Mostly due to trying
to make do with discs that are not large enough.

>
> Currently, I have Ubuntu 12.04, pre-13.04 and Debian "sid" all sharing
> /home and indeed /home/lproven. Works fine.

I can see that if you want to do that then a separate partition is a
necessity.  I hope we are not going to fall out over this :)

Colin