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Re: Separate /home directories etc?

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On 06/07/18 01:54 PM, Matthew Crews wrote:

> Pros to keeping same partition together
> Pros: less hassle
> Cons: if your / partition drive fails, it takes /home with it
>
> Separate partitions
> Pros: if your / partition drive fails, it does not take /home with it
> Pros: easier to run multiple distros
> Cons: more hassle

I'm currently in the process of moving from the mailing list to the 
Usenet newsgroup linux.debian.user.  I've been running the two in 
parallel, and I've been getting identical results.

Until your message came along.  Although it looks OK in my e-mail client 
(Icedove), slrn rendered it as a bunch of base64 gibberish (see below).

> Sent from ProtonMail <https://protonmail.com>, Swiss-based encrypted email.

Check your settings.  There might be something there that isn't quite 
standard.  Either that or it's sufficiently out on the edge to violate 
Postel's Law.

Here's what your posting looks like in slrn:

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cgibbs@surfnaked.ca (Charlie Gibbs)

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