> Yes, for the swap I agree, regarding to /home there aren't real advantages > on a home PC, when disk space was expensive it had a disadvantage, since > the user had to take care how to allocate the disk space. > > Mounting / as r only isn't really needed, if you install a new Linux and > you want to keep /home, havnig it not separated from / isn't really a > disadvantage. > > What advantages should there be? Why not directly go the completely > obsolete root and have a partition for /boot, /tmp, /var? Yes, it makes > sense for some machines, but please explain the benefits for most, > averaged home PCs. > > We audio production folks for sure have reasons not only to use a > separated partition, but a completely separated second or third hard disk. > Would you recommend to do the same for people who don't do audio > productions, just for media player usage? > > Regards, > Ralf
Hi Ralf, I disagree with you. IMO putting /home on a seperate partition has a lot of advantages. First, when your system is so bad damaged, that you need to reinstall the complete OS, all the setting of the can stay untouchable. These are passwords, desktop settings, addressbooks and whatever. Second, when space is getting low on /home, it is easy to add a new device and put users data onto it on the new device. This can be also done while the system is running (special hardware needed). This might be more important on servers, but may also become important on desktp systems or notebooks with 2 harddrives built in. Third, security. You can just encrypt the /home partition, whilst the rest of the system can be left in unencrypted state (especially better for troubleshooting purposes) Fourth, if you are using /home on an own device, you can carry it around, while got every personal setting with you. There might be a lot more advantages, but these are IMO the most obvious. Happy hacking Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201306241152.34448.hans.ullr...@loop.de
