OT - Which Linux?

[Justin]

Adam D. Ruppe Wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 07:34:19PM -0400, Justin wrote:
> > I think that the separate partition for /home is a good idea, generally 
> > speaking. It can be a lifesaver if you enjoy hacking around the system and 
> > manage to royally screw things up. 
> 
> Why would a separate partition help with this? With one partition, you can
> still or kill broken system files. Just overwrite the system without
> formatting the whole thing.
> 
Because you can reformat and reinstall on your system partition while leaving the home partition alone.

Generally, moving your /home to a new partition is as simple as doing a cp -R (perhaps with a few other flags to make sure that things like links get handled properly).