What is the consensus on the best partition scheme and size?/Keeping home separate
Timothy Murphy
tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
Wed Oct 25 22:47:00 UTC 2006
Andy Green wrote:
> But on a box like this laptop, what does LVM being on by default really
> get you? I don't use separate partitions for /home and such, for the
> single user laptop situation it's not beneficial.
That's an extraordinary view.
There are overwhelming arguments for a separate /home partition,
whether using LVM or not.
To start with, it makes the installation
(whether by clean install or upgrade)
of a new version of Fedora far simpler.
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