Partitioning advice (/usr and /home)
Lowell Gilbert
freebsd-questions-local at be-well.no-ip.com
Mon Sep 15 07:00:36 PDT 2003
"Michael Vondung" <michael at 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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