It was Nov 4, 2000, 12:17, when Rick Commo keyboarded:
>(1) home could be a separate directory on the / partition
>(2) home could be a separate partition
>(3) home/<user_dirs> could be a separate disk mounted
>(4) <user_dirs> are separate partitions for each user on another disk(s).
>
>Do any of you who have lived in the Unix/Linux world for a long time have
>strong opinions or experience on which, if any, of these might be the
>preferred way to set up a system?
On my system, I have /boot, /home and /usr on separate partitions. And I
am totally glad for that, since the problems I encountered forced me to
reinstall Linux. Everything in /usr and /home was preserved, even after I
had formatted the root partition. WP8 Linux ran all fine after that, try
that in a MS-based OS ;-)
If you are able to, stick an extra drive in the machine, and make new
partitions for /usr and /home (/boot is not necessary perse) and move the
existing info over. Update /etc/fstab, make sure things work, and then you
should be home free for the clean install and not having to worry about
losing data or programs.
Paul
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