On Thu, 5 Jun 2014 12:37:52 Terry Duell wrote: > > Traditionally, /home was a separate partition to prevent lusers from > > filling up the root partition and potentially bringing the server down. > > Is there any advantage to having a separate /home partition on a Desktop > > system with only one (or a few) end-users? > > I think so, having /home as a separate partition makes distro updates > simpler.
If you want to change to a different distribution or use a distribution that has no good support for upgrades then that's the case. If you use a Debian based distribution then you can always upgrade it without doing a reinstall so that's not necessary. Also most distributions support installing without running mkfs, so if you have everything in a single partition then you could just rm -rf everything apart from /home before the installation. > >> I should add I have a second 500 GB disc that I can use to hold stuff > >> while reformatting my current 500 GB drive. > > > > If you have a spare 500 GB drive, I'd recommend using that instead (and > > not reformatting your existing 500 GB drive), until you're satisfied > > with your new setup, say in a few months down the track. You have a > > rollback option (and a data backup) then if everything goes pear shaped. > > Yes, I wouldn't reformat my existing drive until it has all 'settled down'. 500G is small by today's standards. If you use the first 500G of a 1TB disk then it'll be a lot faster than a 500G disk. > > Btw, is there any barrier to just doing a fresh install on the SSD, get > > that partitioned, bootable and running (as part of the installation > > process), and then mounting your existing 500 GB disk to copy the > > necessary data across? > > Probably no barrier to that approach, but I do have a quite a lot of > additional stuff installed. I suspect rsync'ing my system files across may > be simpler...not sure. rsync is simpler for people who have had experience doing some of the unusual things with Linux. If you lack such experience then you'll probably find a fresh install to be simpler. You can copy the configuration files over after a fresh install. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
