/Keeping home separate

[Jay Scherrer]

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>    1. Re: What is the consensus on the best partition scheme	and
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> Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 03:24:43 +0100
> From: Timothy Murphy <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie>
> Subject: Re: What is the consensus on the best partition scheme	and
> 	size?/Keeping home separate
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> Andy Green wrote:
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>> I am not overwhelmed by this "overwhelming argument": I do clean
>> installs and upgrades just fine with /home in /.
>>     
>
> How?
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>   
I actually prefer to keep separate my /home and my /opt directories. And
make sure they stay on the main partition, just in case of a disk
failure before a backup.
As I keep updating with each new version of Fedora core, I tend to
collect a lot of individual "stuff" that I do not wish to keep
reinstalling. And for that reason I even keep a separate /opt
directory/mount point that I use to hold the previous version of Fedora
core plus any other extra applications that I want to make sure to keep
and not have to reinstall for each new build.
So during your install just keep your /home and /opt the same.