On Friday, November 30, 2018 07:26:33 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > 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.
Hmm, it hasn't been 10 years since I installed Jessie, yet I have my top level directories (e.g., /abc, which hold my data directories (e.g., /abc/Documents)) on a separate disk, and I'm rather certain I did that with the installer -- maybe I used a different version of the installer (or maybe I'm mis-remembering -- maybe I created those partitions (on a separate disk) after the installation. But, I've thought about it for a few moments, and I'm more certain I did that with the installer...
