Re: Using a Separate Home
From: wbarwell (wbarwell_at_mylinuxisp.com)
Date: 10/11/05
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Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 04:52:41 -0500
B Gruff wrote:
> To date (about 15 months) I've only ever used a single
> partition when installing a distro.
> Time and again, I see advice on how to use separate partitions,
> even on
> different drives. I'm a bit lost as to WHY though. That's far
> too general
> a question to ask here. At the moment, my concern is simply
> /home.
Seperate partitions make it easier to back up.
It also means you can instal and upgrade or new
system safer.
And you can do things like put the system on hda
and home/ on hdb.
> Several times in this group, I've seen you guys referring to
> using a
> separate /home to facilitate upgrading. i.e. you seem to do
> your first
> installation specifying a separate /home partition.
> Thereafter, you specify that /home (without formatting, of
> course!) when installing your next distro, and so it goes on -
> one /home, many installations. Do I have that right?
Yes.
> It doesn't seem right at. I can see that one could use a
> common (say) /home/Bill/Documents, and that it would be OK for
> that to be common, but /home/Bill contains (for example) my
> Firefox stuff, and in that is a folder with a
> randomly-generated name......and also my /home has got Wine
> stuff in it.....
>
> I'm still rather amazed, thinking about it, that this common
> /home can work at all, but you all seem to say that it does(?)
> Help?:-)
You would have a /home/ partition, maybe you might have a
user account /home/bill/, your wife might have an
account /home/wife/, you might have an account, /home/
adminstration/, and so one. I have a hard disk with /home/
and /home2/ which I use to back stuff up to, and you might
have other partitions like /music/. So I know all this stuff
is on one disk and that makes it easy for me to keep track of.
I use carts. So I can swap out my /home/hard disk to my
back up machine if I have a mechanical problem with my main
machine.
That leaves a lot of room on hda and I might back up my
/home/user/ account on that in say, /backup/ in case my /home/
hard disk dies. I haven't lost anything much.
like wise I can back up stuff like /usr/share/bin/ and /etc/ to
hdb in case hda dies. From time to time I have a 3rd hard disk I
back up /home/ to so if I manage to do dosmething bad I lose
nothing.
Its just a convenience. Stuff like this is far more important in
an office say where you don't want downtime, its a convenience
for home.
Backing up from hard disk to hard disk is fast and easy and
makes it easy to upgrade or add new OS distros to a system.
>
> Bill
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