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On 06/09/13 17:43, bad apple wrote:
Thanks for all the help so far. One reason for my question was the suggestion that having a separate home partition could be useful when upgrading, as I do, via a new installation as opposed to an upgrade.On 06/09/13 08:42, Neil Winchurst wrote:Well, I did ask, thanks. I will print the relevant parts of this and study at leisure! One lesson learned, do it properly in the first place. I will also research some more, especially as you seem to suggest that a separate home partition may not be a good thing?? Support for the ubuntu distros has now been reduced to 9 months instead of the previous 18 months, except for the LTS versions of course. This is one reason for my question. It seems that moving to the next version in future is going to be needed more often, and I always do a fresh install as opposed to an upgrade. NeilThe separate /home partition thing really comes down to a matter of choice I think - in my experience the majority of skilled linux users swear by having a separate /home (although nearly always on the same disk as /, which to me seems a bit silly and self-defeating - it's like keeping your backups on the same system as you're backing up). Personally I don't bother unless there is a specific usage case for it, which in my case, is following documented partitioning practices for certain usually highly secured systems. None of my personal machines have ever had a separate /home unless it's being NFS mounted or something.
The idea, as I understand it, is to install the new system files into the root partition, replacing the previous ones, but to leave the home partition alone. This would save having to restore the previous home files and make it quicker and easier to be ready with the new version.
This would require that the home files be in their own partition. Is this in fact feasible and/or feasible?
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