And as I said, each to their own. There is no requirement to have /home on its' own partition, this is a lesson learned by the avarage 'home' user when their system has a power-outrage during an upgrade. (Yes, you are right... 1) They never do actually take a backup and 2) having /home on a seperate partition is no replacement for such a backup..... But, you stand a darn sight better chance of rescuing your /home data if it is simply because you can use a LiveCD to mount up /home on its own even if your attempt to re-format the / partition went horribly wrong... home users are also those who read articles and go .... "ooh, I'll change from ext 3 --> ext 4", or now.... "ooh. I'll change from ext4 to btrfs" :D). I've obviously been too long on support :) "You do have, of course, have a back up of your /home area; don't you?"...... At least a seperate partition offers some hope, rather than none. Just as when they come on to support stating they need to enter their passphrase as they have encypted their /home and never actually wrote it down anywhere... Which is also unsolvable :)
Regards, Phill. On 8 April 2013 21:03, Ioannis Vranos <[email protected]> wrote: > Correction: > > > On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 11:02 PM, Ioannis Vranos > <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 ==> /tmp partition, etc. > > > > This is why I said "for some specific reason". > > > > > > Usually, home users do not need separate partitions. > -- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw
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