Hello,
In the installation process, linux let you to dedicate a partition for "Home" , "usr" and...what is its benefit? It is better to dedicate a partition for a directory like "Home" that store personal data, but how about others?
Thanks.
Chrisdb wrote:hi,
In most cases for personal use, a separate home partition is useful when you upgrade or reinstall your system, you can choose to leave this partition untouched so you can have a backup
djk44883 wrote:Chrisdb wrote:hi,
In most cases for personal use, a separate home partition is useful when you upgrade or reinstall your system, you can choose to leave this partition untouched so you can have a backup
A note, if you upgrade or reinstall, leaving your /home "disconnected", I suspect you allow the upgrade/reinstall to create one, as needed?
So you add mount /home to fstab - so all your old configuration files are still intact, weather or not they may or may not conflict with your upgrade, or reason you reinstalled?? Or do you sort through things first, making it useful?
I have found a method to use a separate filesystem/partition creating a directory holding Documents, Music, Downloads, etc maybe even .themes, and in ~ are symbolic links to these. This keeps my personal files separate allowing any installation to configure user home as needed.
chris@BOSSDESK:~$ sudo blkid
/dev/sda1: LABEL_FATBOOT="EFI" LABEL="EFI" UUID="C3A8-EEA4" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="18d763ec-f0d2-4bc3-9eb6-aafd4921c843"
/dev/sda2: LABEL="DEB10XFCE-OS" UUID="58a848fe-dbc3-4afc-a9a6-da218204217c" TYPE="ext4" PARTLABEL="DEB10XFCE-OS" PARTUUID="1ba83d88-2840-4bc4-879f-6f0acb2e01b8"
/dev/sda3: LABEL="DEB10XFCE-HOME" UUID="6147aebc-c2b6-4b74-adf9-487e29813d6c" TYPE="ext4" PARTLABEL="DEB10XFCE-HOME" PARTUUID="6df9990d-20db-485d-b0f4-31fdeab291f0"
/dev/sda4: LABEL="D9XFCE-OS" UUID="fefe6dde-4b05-4d97-a384-91a527929d57" TYPE="ext4" PARTLABEL="D9XFCE-OS" PARTUUID="f0163448-0a80-4ee9-8438-1992a67e2a8d"
/dev/sda5: LABEL="D9XFCE-HOME" UUID="090a849c-a90f-4a8c-ae1a-274609da4efc" TYPE="ext4" PARTLABEL="D9XFCE-HOME" PARTUUID="cc94bd7b-24f4-4c38-925f-c87d341fdd4e"
/dev/sda6: LABEL="DEBIAN8-OS" UUID="13b081a7-653e-48e1-b0db-1175f2a6cd66" TYPE="ext4" PARTLABEL="DEBIAN8-OS" PARTUUID="2fbe6f6f-1b11-454d-b80e-03e8f62f0200"
/dev/sda7: LABEL="DEBIAN8-HOME" UUID="09a78e50-1716-49c5-8439-f94f314c62bf" TYPE="ext4" PARTLABEL="DEBIAN8-HOME" PARTUUID="e35ceaf8-57ac-44cf-91d7-89d76548f891"
/dev/sda8: LABEL="DEB10KDE-OS" UUID="e5934d55-007b-4b81-915e-a863ffd7c04d" TYPE="ext4" PARTLABEL="DEB10KDE-OS" PARTUUID="b70939b7-a79f-4401-bf1c-9a83d07a928e"
/dev/sda9: LABEL="DEB10KDE-HOME" UUID="521e731b-da13-4dcd-99e3-14251aa3faf4" TYPE="ext4" PARTLABEL="DEB10KDE-HOME" PARTUUID="7c7658ff-4ed6-4944-8c8f-a864dd32471f"
/dev/sda10: LABEL="SWAP" UUID="fb76a968-8ee2-4277-8eea-2feb628a5852" TYPE="swap" PARTLABEL="SWAP" PARTUUID="65086bbe-7410-4c43-bc90-0bf009a6eb85"
/dev/sdb1: LABEL="DATA2" UUID="a08f0c13-cfe8-4bc2-8ae0-95550ad9ce58" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="6e321f73-66c3-4588-acd6-a35fcc312814"
/dev/sdc1: LABEL="DATA" UUID="d295f63a-5933-428b-bbe5-cd8173421d14" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="cdddcd13-c42e-45b6-a6d9-c441f50878c3"
wizard10000 wrote:Anyway, this weekend I think I'm gonna move home back to the root partition, kill the swap partition, add a swapfile and resize the root partition to fill up the disk.
wizard10000 wrote:kill the swap partition, add a swapfile
root@sarah:/var/log# blkid
/dev/mapper/sda5_crypt: UUID="BX....Q" TYPE="LVM2_member"
/dev/mapper/sarah--vg-root: UUID="10....0" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda1: LABEL="dvr" UUID="56....f" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="6ee26032-01"
/dev/sdb1: LABEL="pasture" UUID="26....7" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="48df53c9-01"
/dev/sdc1: LABEL="USB_POOL" UUID="E897-A125" TYPE="vfat"
/dev/sdd1: UUID="41....2" TYPE="ext2" PARTUUID="56854b99-01"
/dev/sdd5: UUID="e1....3" TYPE="crypto_LUKS" PARTUUID="56854b99-05"
/dev/sde1: LABEL="Media" UUID="D0....0" TYPE="ntfs" PARTUUID="dec171a6-01"
/dev/sdf1: LABEL="meadow" UUID="a8....6" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="fdcc92f3-01"
/dev/mapper/sarah--vg-swap: UUID="95....03" TYPE="swap"
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