How Many Here Employ a Dedicated /Home ?
by enorbet from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5B16Y)
Greetz
Title says it all... well almost ;) I'd also like to know how long (through how many updates), how many systems may possibly share the same /home, and any "gotchas" encountered.
For my own situation, I used to use separate /boot, /home, /tmp, and /usr back around version 10 but although it worked, I didn't realize then how each would grow and some I made too large and others too small so it became a maintenance mess making room and resizing partitions, so I stopped.
Now I'm using separate /boot and playing with separate EFI Fat32 partition on two of five drives but a most are just all-in-one / install. UEFI and running Current with lots of upgrades is making me reconsider partition use.
If you'd like to comment on any use of dedicated partitions that's OK but /home use is preferred topic.
NOTE: Making this an actual POLL thread failed because of refresh. Oops!
Title says it all... well almost ;) I'd also like to know how long (through how many updates), how many systems may possibly share the same /home, and any "gotchas" encountered.
For my own situation, I used to use separate /boot, /home, /tmp, and /usr back around version 10 but although it worked, I didn't realize then how each would grow and some I made too large and others too small so it became a maintenance mess making room and resizing partitions, so I stopped.
Now I'm using separate /boot and playing with separate EFI Fat32 partition on two of five drives but a most are just all-in-one / install. UEFI and running Current with lots of upgrades is making me reconsider partition use.
If you'd like to comment on any use of dedicated partitions that's OK but /home use is preferred topic.
NOTE: Making this an actual POLL thread failed because of refresh. Oops!