On a single drive system I wouldn't create a separate partition for the /home directory but I have been known to put /home on a second drive (possibly SATA) while everything else is on an NVMe drive, if more space was needed.
2 years ago | 3
Joe, I think what you're suggesting is an excellent idea. Go for it! John R.
2 years ago | 2
It depends on weather the user actually invests a lot of time on configurations and apps on the environment, when you go through hours to create the best keyboard shortcuts to even lunch a new workspace with automated command executions, you sure will have a separate home partition to prevent starting from scratch
2 years ago | 2
Hi Joe. Hello guys. On my working Debian machine, i prefer to call her the serverš, i have not only a separate home partition, but a home partition which is located on 2 separate disks which are set in RAID1. On the virtual machine, which has the same version of Debian i test before installing anything on the real machine, I donāt bother to create more than one partition. And huge thanks for your videos, Joe. Keep it up and take care
2 years ago | 2
I'm still in the extremely early stages of learning about Linux but so far I'm enjoying the ins and outs of the system.
2 years ago | 2
Ya if it's a production PC or daily driver I always create a separate home partition. But for media PC or light gaming PC, they tend to stay stock any.
2 years ago | 2
I don't worry about making a separate home partition anymore. I did a few years ago. It's just me on my laptop. And whenever I go install another or the same distro, I just make a tar file for my browser and copy it over to my USB. And then start all over. I like to tweak sometimes.
2 years ago | 2
Depends on the system but usually nvme for the sustem and hdds for home is better for me
2 years ago | 2
Yeppers, I always use a separate home partition but it's mounted on entirely different drive.
2 years ago | 0
I actually put /home on a separate drive. Call me weird.
2 years ago (edited) | 1
I generally don't bother with it, but I bought an NVMe SSD around a year ago but left my spinning drive in there. When I reinstalled, I decided to use a separate hope partition and put it on the spinning drive and kept the rest of it on my SSD.
2 years ago | 1
I used to use another hard disk for it but hard disks are too slow nowadays. Now I just install and chill
2 years ago | 1
I think the two different partitions seem redundant Iām not certain why they chose that
2 years ago | 1
I always make Boot partition Root partition Home partition Swap This way is easy to work The only down side is if you make small root partition but in that case I make a link of the large folders to home
2 years ago | 4
I just do the default install. I'm old and only have so much space in my head for all the different ways to setup an install.
2 years ago | 3
I have a separate ssd for a /home partition, because I often reinstall Linux.
2 years ago | 1
I don't use it for my data. I use a separate partition that may be shared with windows. I let the home folder contain just the config files.
2 years ago | 1
My choice isnt listed. I used to do a separate home partition, but it always seemed like some system artifacts would get left behind when I would reinstall. Things like xorg configuration that I didn' necessarily want to preserve. So I started leaving my hard disk as a separate mount point in root, then symlinking the directories on that mount into my home. That way all my user level data exists on the external drive, but other system level stuff that needs to be wiped out when the system gets reinstalled is on the "volatile" volume. Most of those files are just configuration that can be redone when software gets reinstalled anyway.
2 years ago | 1
Joe Collins (EzeeLinux)
Attention Linux peeps! I'd love to hear your thoughts on creating separate /home partitions when installing Linux these days. Do we really need to do this in the age of UEFI and SSD's?Take a moment and take the poll. Thanks! We'll talk about it in a video soon. :) Joe
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