On Monday 10 March 2008 12:08:18 Brendan Conoboy wrote:
People can always resize / later and add a /home. Every system needs a
/ but not every system needs a /home. Is there a strong technical
reason for a default /home? Would that same reason also apply toward a
separate /usr and /var and /var/tmp? Please, lets not get nostalgic for
SunOS 4 partitioning!
I can think of a good reason for a separate /home: upgrade paths. I know we
are getting better at it, but it can still be problematic if one tries to
install over a previous installation, and it is usually pretty smooth to just
format / while leaving /home intact.
-- Benjamin Kreuter
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