Date: 15 Sep 2003 10:00:33 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> To: "Michael Vondung" <michael@vcommunities.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partitioning advice (/usr and /home) Message-ID: <44ekyim9ry.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <000401c37b74$003e94f0$0200a8c0@tabby> References: <000401c37b74$003e94f0$0200a8c0@tabby>
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"Michael Vondung" <michael@vcommunities.net> writes: > Backup matters aside, is there a significant advantage of having a separate > /home partition at all? If not, just skipping /home and using 70GB for /usr > (including /usr/home) might be the most practical and flexible approach? If it's not a server, then, no, sticking those together in a single partition is probably the most convenient approach. Personally, I wouldn't ignore backup issues -- they are the main impetus behind my own partitioning schemes -- but for a user desktop, other concerns aren't that important.
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