On 07/10/2018 03:11 PM, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 07/10/2018 01:28 PM, David Wright wrote:
[snip]
Is it a big enough topic to deserve a whole article? I would expect
articles on partitioning to mention it in passing, as for example:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/partitioning
That, with
On 07/11/2018 01:10 AM, debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote:
On 7/10/18 3:28 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
On Fri, Jul 06, 2018 at 04:54:53PM -0400, Matthew Crews wrote:
Separate partitions
Pros: if your / partition drive fails, it does not take /home with it
You are conflating
On 7/10/18 3:28 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 06, 2018 at 04:54:53PM -0400, Matthew Crews wrote:
>> Separate partitions
>> Pros: if your / partition drive fails, it does not take /home with it
>
> You are conflating drives and partitions, here. Both partitions could be
> on the same
On 07/10/2018 01:28 PM, David Wright wrote:
[snip]
Is it a big enough topic to deserve a whole article? I would expect
articles on partitioning to mention it in passing, as for example:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/partitioning
That, with the benefit of article it references, is
On Sun 08 Jul 2018 at 07:47:48 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 07/06/2018 03:47 PM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> >In response to a unrelated post to a LUG, I was asked if I had a
> >separate /home directory. Short answer -- no.
> >
> >I abandoned WinXP when Jessie had become stable.
> >The
On Fri, Jul 06, 2018 at 04:54:53PM -0400, Matthew Crews wrote:
Separate partitions
Pros: if your / partition drive fails, it does not take /home with it
You are conflating drives and partitions, here. Both partitions could be
on the same physical drive, and a drive failure would affect both in
On Sat, Jul 07, 2018 at 08:35:51PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> On Sat 07 Jul 2018 at 08:04:16 (-0400), cyaiplexys wrote:
> > I used to have a separate /home directory back in the day. But I
> > realized that anytime I wanted to reinstall or redo my system
> > (upgrade major version seems to work
On 2018-07-08 13:47, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 07/06/2018 03:47 PM, Richard Owlett wrote:
In response to a unrelated post to a LUG, I was asked if I had a
separate /home directory. Short answer -- no.
I abandoned WinXP when Jessie had become stable.
The installer defaults {I assume for cause}
On 7/6/18, ntrfug wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Jul 2018 15:47:37 -0500
> Richard Owlett wrote:
>
>> In response to a unrelated post to a LUG, I was asked if I had a
>> separate /home directory. Short answer -- no.
>>
>> I abandoned WinXP when Jessie had become stable.
>> The installer defaults {I assume
On 07/06/2018 03:47 PM, Richard Owlett wrote:
In response to a unrelated post to a LUG, I was asked if I had a
separate /home directory. Short answer -- no.
I abandoned WinXP when Jessie had become stable.
The installer defaults {I assume for cause} to putting every thing on
one
On Sat 07 Jul 2018 at 08:04:16 (-0400), cyaiplexys wrote:
> On 07/06/2018 07:40 PM, ntrfug wrote:
> >The home directory contains not only "personal data" but configuration
> >directories for all your apps.
> >
> >I long ago settled on a middle-of-the-road solution--I have a partition
> >mounted on
Pascal Hambourg composed on 2018-07-07 15:34 (UTC+0200):
> Felix Miata composed:
>> The only significant drawback is when the disk size is small it can be
>> problematic to determine optimum sizes for the separate space allocations.
> LVM is your friend in such situation.
Not my friend.
Le 07/07/2018 à 00:12, Felix Miata a écrit :
The only significant drawback is when the disk size is small it can be
problematic to determine optimum sizes for the separate space allocations.
LVM is your friend in such situation. Extending a logical volume is easy.
On 07/06/2018 07:40 PM, ntrfug wrote:
On Fri, 6 Jul 2018 15:47:37 -0500
Richard Owlett wrote:
In response to a unrelated post to a LUG, I was asked if I had a
separate /home directory. Short answer -- no.
I abandoned WinXP when Jessie had become stable.
The installer defaults {I assume for
On Fri, 6 Jul 2018 15:47:37 -0500
Richard Owlett wrote:
> In response to a unrelated post to a LUG, I was asked if I had a
> separate /home directory. Short answer -- no.
>
> I abandoned WinXP when Jessie had become stable.
> The installer defaults {I assume for cause} to putting every thing
On 06/07/18 01:54 PM, Matthew Crews wrote:
Pros to keeping same partition together
Pros: less hassle
Cons: if your / partition drive fails, it takes /home with it
Separate partitions
Pros: if your / partition drive fails, it does not take /home with it
Pros: easier to run multiple distros
Richard Owlett composed on 2018-07-06 14:47 (UTC-0500):
> In response to a unrelated post to a LUG, I was asked if I had a
> separate /home directory. Short answer -- no.
> I abandoned WinXP when Jessie had become stable.
> The installer defaults {I assume for cause} to putting every thing on
I, not only have a separate /home directory but, if the Hard Drive is large
enough, will create things, like /bighome, /oldhome (just before installing
a new Release), as well other variations, to handle the "Issue de jour".
Why? Because /home is where my "personal data" is stored, and I don't
Pros to keeping same partition together
Pros: less hassle
Cons: if your / partition drive fails, it takes /home with it
Separate partitions
Pros: if your / partition drive fails, it does not take /home with it
Pros: easier to run multiple distros
Cons: more hassle
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