Comments on: Why a Seperate /home Rocks

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By: The Lazy Canadian

The Lazy Canadian — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 20:19:24 +0000

I never thought of having a separate /home partition. Maybe I’ll try it next time I install Ubuntu. (I’m afraid of trashing Vista’s bootloader, atm.)

By: Christopher Beale

Christopher Beale — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:01:13 +0000

Booting multiple *nix with the same /home would only work under one condition, that you magically got the same UID on both systems, else your permissions will be fucked and you most likely wont be able to log in ;)

Also, its not really a ‘feature’, its not quite so intentional as a side effect of effective programming.

@Thomas: Most *nix Distro’s do this now, including Slackware, FreeBSD,Arch and Debian, its mianly just redhat and ubuntu based that don’t at the moment.

By: Lasse Havelund

Lasse Havelund — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 06:29:11 +0000

@Juan: I think I’d use an 80-gig /home, and a 20-30 gig /. Maybe 70/30-40.

@Thomas: I’m not putting my box on the line—feel free to try, though ;D

By: Thomas Wood

Thomas Wood — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 00:37:29 +0000

OpenBSD goes as far as recommending all new installations have separate /, /home, /var, /tmp and /usr bsd-type partitions as a minimum.

Dual-booting linux and bsd with a shared home partition may be an interesting experiment. :D

By: Juan Pedro

Juan Pedro — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:00:08 +0000

I have a 120 GiB, which is a real 110 GiB.
Thanks for your comments!

By: Lasse Havelund

Lasse Havelund — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:52:15 +0000

Well, how big’s your drive?

By: Juan Pedro

Juan Pedro — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 13:48:05 +0000

Which size do you think is the smaller that “/” partition could have?
Sorry, I’m a newbie: too many questions :)

By: Lasse Havelund

Lasse Havelund — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 12:32:10 +0000

Should be. Most of your data will be stored in ~/.

And yeah; I’d been considering it for a while, and thought I might as well do it now. :D

By: Juan Pedro

Juan Pedro — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 11:02:04 +0000

The question will be, 50GiB are enough for the “/”?

PS: Great, you add “Notify me of followup comments via e-mail ” :)