Yes, keeping the settings (especially of many users), during upgrades, is a reason for a separate /home partition.
Multiuser production systems also need a separate /temp partition, etc. This is why I said "for some specific reason". Usually, home users do not need separate partitions. Ioannis Vranos http://www.cppsoftware.net On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 10:21 PM, Phill Whiteside <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi loannis, > > back in the crazy days it was advised to have a seperate /home. Whether this > is still valid these days? Pass... would I ever forgo my seperate /home > partition? Never :) > You can do some crazy things, and bad things can happen to good machines. I > have always preferred my "home (i.e personal data) for my desktop system on > its' own partition. Whilst an upgrade of your system is designed to leave > /home alone. If you have to re-install because it is so badly broken, the > installer will not preserve your /home unless it is in a seperate partition. > It is for each to decide. > > Regards, > > Phill. > > > > > On 8 April 2013 19:41, Ioannis Vranos <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> If you do not need separate partitions for some specific reason, I >> suggest install Lubuntu in one / partition, along with a swap >> partition ( it is the default Lubuntu installation). >> >> >> Ioannis Vranos >> >> http://www.cppsoftware.net >> >> >> On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Paul Sutton <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi >> > >> > I need to re-install Lubuntu cleanly, my current system is dual boot >> > with linpus, which is never used, the rest of the system was ubuntu >> > which via apt-get install lubuntu-dekstop now runs that hence i may have >> > previosuly referred to this as hybrid. >> > >> > http://zleap.net/reinstall-of-lubuntu/ >> > >> > as you can see from the disk utility the file system is a MESS >> > >> > is the best way to go about reinstalling simply to wipe the whole hard >> > disk and start over >> > >> > in which case 250 gb hard disk >> > >> > split as >> > >> > /boot / 1 GB >> > /home 90 GB (approx) >> > / 149 GB (approx) >> > /swap about 4 - 8 gb (2gb ram) >> > >> > >> > Currently using just over 50gb for /home (this WILL be backed up) >> > >> > Where does steam install games to ? the main file system or in >> > /home/user this will determine how much I allocate to /home or / >> > >> > the only person using this system is ME and there is an external HDD >> > >> > Paul >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > http://www.zleap.net >> > skype : psutton111 >> > http://www.linkedin.com/pub/paul-sutton/36/595/911 >> > >> > http://www.raspberrypi.org >> > http://www.ubuntu.com >> > >> > I am committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable >> > groups and expect any school or establishment I am involved with to share >> > this commitment. >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Lubuntu-users mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >> > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users >> >> -- >> Lubuntu-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users > > > > > -- > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw -- Lubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users
