OT - Which Linux?

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Wed Aug 26 12:54:11 PDT 2009


Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:46:21 -0400, Adam D. Ruppe thusly 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.

> ...

> Of course, the big downside there is the cost. But, yeah, if you have
> the spare cash, two hard drives is a nice deal.

Disk space is cheap these days. A shiny new 1 TB drive costs less than 
$100. I've used a 25 GB root partition at least the last 5 years and 
according to the disk space calculators it still seems half empty. It 
makes sense to separate root from important files, because file system 
corruption isn't that uncommon. Another thing is, reinstallation is much 
easier since you don't need to move *anything*.



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