Re: Floppies - Actual Question

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On 2025-10-04 17:22, Rich wrote:
> Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> wrote:
>> When doing upgrades of the same distro, I see no difference between
>> having /home in a designed partition or not.
> 
> The two reasons most often quoted for having /home on a separate
> partition are:
> 
> 1) Doing so makes it impossible for a user in /home to fill to 100%
> capacity the root partition.  Arguably, this reason is more credible in
> a multiuser system where one of the set of users could accidentally or
> intentionally fill the disk.  Things go really wonky if the root
> partition is 100% full.
> 
> 2) Having /home separate makes it easy to upgrade the system without
> worrying about erasing /home in the process.  Unmount /home, perform
> upgrade (naturally, being careful as to which partition is actually the
> root partition), then remount an otherwise untouched /home partition.
> Arguably, the rolling release type distros have made this less of an
> isssue with their ability to upgrade in place.

Yes, unless they fuckup. Then you need to install from scratch, or 
install a second partition.

> 
> 
> A third reason I've seen, but it is not anywhere common, is for folks
> who like to play "distro hopping".  They might have two or more
> partitions that are each the root partition of a different
> distribution.  Having /home be a separate partition means that single
> /home partition can be mounted onto whichever of the plural root
> partitions is the one they have currently booted.

I know one chap that does distro testing, has dozens of the same distro 
in a single disk, plus other distros.

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.
ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;

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                Re: Floppies - Actual Question The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-10-09 12:37 +0100
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                Re: Floppies - Actual Question c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-10-09 21:24 -0400
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      Re: Floppies - Actual Question The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-09-28 09:55 +0100
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                Re: Floppies - Actual Question The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-09-29 18:36 +0100
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        Re: Floppies - Actual Question "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-09-29 14:15 +0200
          Re: Floppies - Actual Question Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2025-09-29 08:18 -0700
            Re: Floppies - Actual Question Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-09-29 19:27 +0000
    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 Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-09-28 19:18 +0000
            Re: Floppies - Actual Question The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-09-28 23:55 +0100
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