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On 2025-10-04 11:43, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
> Le 29-09-2025, Carlos E.R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> a écrit :
>> On 2025-09-28 12:21, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
>>> Le 28-09-2025, Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> a écrit :
>>>> On 27 Sep 2025 22:31:34 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Le 27-09-2025, c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> a écrit :
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Well, partitions can be used for "organization" purposes, which can
>>>>>> be useful.
>>>>>
>>>>> Give me a real example in the real world. On a personal computer, I
>>>>> don't see any reason to have more than three partition: one for Linux,
>>>>> one for the swap and one for the UEFI which requires a FAT partition.
>>>>> And for the swap partition, I'm even not that convinced that it's better
>>>>> than a swap file. I'm certainly not convinced by the /home partition for
>>>>> example.
>>>>
>>>> Having a separate /home partition makes things more convenient, in that
>>>> you can replace the OS installation without impacting your home files.
>>>
>>> Yes, I know the theory. Now that's not that magical nor that good. If
>>> the OS replacement haven't the same applications or the same versions
>>> deployed things will have to be handled manually. I'm not saying it
>>> shouldn't be done, I'm saying I'm not convinced it's the best way.
>>
>> It is magical when doing upgrades of the same distribution. If it
>> doesn't, said distro is garbage.
> 
> When doing upgrades of the same distro, I see no difference between
> having /home in a designed partition or not.

That's not the point. The point is having the os in its own partition. 
You either replace the OS entirely, or install another in yet another 
partition.

> 
>>>
>>>> Indeed, I would recommend having two OS partitions, one left unused to
>>>> begin with. That lets you install a second OS later, just to try out,
>>>> without having to wipe your existing one. And they can both share the
>>>> same /home partition. And the same swap partition, while they’re at it.
>>>
>>> OK, with two OS installed at the same time, the /home partition is
>>> mandatory. But not everybody want two OS to try things. Some may prefer
>>> the VM way.
>>
>> Not two oses to try things. To do updates. You put the new version on
>> the second partition, then change which boots by default.
> 
> For a rolling distro it would be a waste of time. For a versioning
> distro, why not. For what I saw, I'm not that convinced because it means
> you must have unusable disk partition just to be able to upgrade. Ok, by
> now, you can resize your partitions so it can be managed but I'm not
> that convinced.

Rolling distro is not a consideration in this thread :-p

No, we just partition the disk accordingly on day one.


> 
>> Some people have an extra partition for data, and put links to it from
>> different homes, so that the configurations are separate for each system.
> 
> Yes, that I understand.
> 


-- 
Cheers, Carlos.
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    Re: Floppies - Actual Question Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2025-09-28 00:31 +0000
      Re: Floppies - Actual Question Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2025-09-28 11:19 +0100
        Re: Floppies - Actual Question The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-09-28 15:22 +0100
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            Re: Floppies - Actual Question The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-09-28 23:55 +0100
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