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 -- Message sent on: Mon Mar 10 12:26:38 EDT 2008
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