On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 15:06, Don wrote:
With advise like "always, always, always put /home on a separate
partition"
(and I've heard that more than once) you'd think the install option that
says "delete all (Linux) partitions and repartition automatically" would do
that... create a separate partition for /home
Well, the "always always always" part is purely my opinion, but it's
worked for me in the past. Other people might argue that putting
various parts of the system on different partitions is pointless 'cos it
causes pain if you ever outgrow a part (you'd need to repartition).
For experts it's fine, but for the newbie, who is likely to just
accept
defaults to get things installed.... "doing it right" from the start would
be helpful.
The problem is everyone has a different opinion as to what's right.
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