Adam D. Ruppe Wrote: > On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 07:34:19PM -0400, Justin wrote: > > I think that the separate partition for /home is a good idea, generally > > speaking. It can be a lifesaver if you enjoy hacking around the system and > > manage to royally screw things up. > > Why would a separate partition help with this? With one partition, you can > still or kill broken system files. Just overwrite the system without > formatting the whole thing. > Because you can reformat and reinstall on your system partition while leaving the home partition alone.
Generally, moving your /home to a new partition is as simple as doing a cp -R (perhaps with a few other flags to make sure that things like links get handled properly).
