I like to have /home on a separate partition to the root filesystem, so that if I want to upgrade the distro then I can pretty much replace the whole root filesystem. (I usually make a new / and install to that, and change over when all is looking good.)
But I just realised that unless you make a separate partition for /usr/local (or equivalent, like making it a symlink to /home/local), then if you clobbered the root filesystem you'd also lose all your local files, which are more on a par with /home. Just a thought. luke -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
