On Friday 30 November 2018 13:58:52 Michael Stone wrote: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 05:23:09PM +0000, Michael Thompson wrote: > >Because if your root partition fails, you can reinstall and all your > > files are safe on their own partition... > > ...leaving open the question of how likely that scenario is. Not bloody likely Michael, if the disk is toast, so are all its partitions as a general rule. If you are going to put you /home on a separate partition, put it on a different disk.
Unfortunately that has NOT been acceptable to the installer for most of a decade now. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
