On Mon, 2022-02-07 at 14:12 -0800, jdow wrote: > Why bother with defining a separate /home at all? It gives a false > sense of security.
There are various different reasons people do partitioning (whether that be home, boot, var, whatever). It's not all about security (or lack of). You might want it completely separate (partition or different drive altogether) so that system updates can be done around /home without losing it. Of course you should have backups, but if you can keep /home during an update, that saves having to re-import it. A 100% filled up home doesn't wedge the system. You may actually want hard size limits on different partitions. You may want different mounting options. Historically, there was also that people chose partitions for speed optimisation (putting constantly accessed files into the fastest parts of the drive). -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.53.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Jan 14 13:59:45 UTC 2022 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
