On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 07:51:40 -0400 (EDT) Kamil Paral <kparal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I imagine this could be very inconvenient for me when switching > > > distributions. I always have / and /home on the same partition. If > > > I > > > want hypothetically to go from let's say Ubuntu to Fedora, I > > > delete all files except /home and then select that partition > > > for /. If you force me to format that partition then I can't > > > easily switch to Fedora, because my /home is huge and I have no > > > external space to back > > > it up. > > > > Why not have /home as a separate partition? This is the classic > > reason > > for doing so. I mean, what you're doing in the above is basically > > 'faking' a /home partition. > > -- > > Adam Williamson > > Because I never saw reason to do so. Having / and /home on the same > partition saves you from problems with insufficient disk space in one > place and too much space in the second place. FWIW, this was exactly our reason too, especially a few years back when disk space was relatively expensive compared to a Fedora install (ie 20 GB harddrives with 5 GB fedora -> 25%). Nowadays there is much less reason not to have separate filesystems wrt space, agreed. But it will cause some migration pain as we have a nice system in place to preserve local user data. We will manage, but I just wanted to state that there was a "valid" use case. Regards, --Stijn -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
