I've had my /home/ directory in it's own partition for years on many
different machines, and I can tell you from experience that it's totally
worth it. If you accidentally break your OS, as I did many times learning
things over the years, all the users' personal data will be saved. This also
You don't need to reformat when you install a GNU/Linux system, unless
obviously there were filesystem issues or you're not happy with the
partitioning scheme. When I do a clean install I just boot a live
environment, mount the filesystem, rename the home directory to home.old,
delete
I'll keep this in mind.
Thanks!
Thank you, this was very helpful.
I didn't remember seeing a seperate partition when installing. I used rEFIT
when installing dualboot, following these instructions:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MactelSupportTeam/AppleIntelInstallation#Dual-Boot:_Mac_OSX_and_Ubuntu
Could mine being on the same partition be because I
When replacing the OS, you don't need to worry about the home folder being
deleted.
Oh, and in my experience the home folder can be huge (owing to downloads,
etc), while the rest of / seems to only take 5-8 GB on my HDD.
Having a seperate /home enables, with many OS' installed on a HDD, a
With all the reinstalling, upgrading, distro-hopping I've done, I can't
imagine not having /home in its own partition. My user data are big, and I'd
not want to restore those often.
I'm using Trisquel about ninety percent of the time now! I'm currently using
a dual boot, and I have a seperate partition for my files, i.e., to share
between the OSs.
Since I've been using Trisquel much more, I was considering moving my files
to the Trisquel partition. But then I became
A seperate home partition is the default for a Trisquel install. Try either
command 'mount' in terminal and look for something like this in the output
/dev/sda6 on /home type xfs (rw)
Or just use the Disk Utility in System Settings to see a graphical
representation of the layout of your
