NullDott 🎩 (Comms Open 3/4)Last Linux question before I go to bed, do you guys keep your home directory in a separate partition?
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@NullTheFool yes
follow my onionfans@NullTheFool nah i don't see any point in separate partitions on a personal computer. people talk about keeping home separate to enable OS migration but honestly there's so much weird program state in the home directory these days that i'd rather start from a clean slate and migrate things manually
0x4d6165 (Julie or Mae)@NullTheFool sorta, i use a btrfs subvolume
Artéan@NullTheFool I don't do it on every computer yet, but eventually yes. I don't reinstall a distro every month but I already came close to completely messing it up on my 2-in-1 laptop, so a separate partition would make it much less painful to reinstall it from a clean slate.
Nadia.moe@NullTheFool Nah, makes stuff more complicated for no reason.
Markus Ewald@NullTheFool Nah.
It supposedly should make it easier to keep things when reinstalling, but you can just as well use a LiveCD to move your old `/home` into `/backup/home`, delete the rest and reinstall with a clean slate.
Fracturing available disk space feels a bit wasteful at that level. I do have my creative / programming stuff on a different physical disk + partitions (mounted to `/srv/devel` and others), though.
Kaizel@NullTheFool Yes, i put the home in another partition, not only to keep my data outside root partition, but also the config files.
All configs files for the software is in that partition, so, if i have to reinstall the OS, i only format and reinstall root partition.
That way, when i install the software again, is "already configured", so i don't have to config all the programs every time i reinstall.
curly | 水ちちゃん@NullTheFool Ya, but I don't think I will in the future if I ever redo my system
nitsa 🌸@NullTheFool yes, specifically because I use btrfs volumes as partitions and I can make instant snapshots (and thus backups) of just the home directories
Yora@NullTheFool Yes. This makes it so much easier any time I do a new installation of the OS.
I still have to make a fresh backup before I do it, but when nothing goes wrong (and I don't remember it ever doing), I don't have to spend time getting the backed up data copied back on the computer.
I still have to make a fresh backup before I do it, but when nothing goes wrong (and I don't remember it ever doing), I don't have to spend time getting the backed up data copied back on the computer.
Oblomov@NullTheFool I tried it some time ago. Not worth it IME.
SavvyWolf 
@NullTheFool I do. It makes it easier to switch OS without having to copy files around. I also have my home partition encrypted but not my OS partition.
Johan Sköld@NullTheFool yep. I wipe it when I distro hop, but if I'm just reinstalling for some reason it's nice to be good to go again within minutes.
I have all my partitions in LVM though, and didn't allocate everything yet. I just grow partitions as needed. So it's not wasting a huge amount of space since most of it is actually in use.
Umur Gedik@NullTheFool yeppp also /home/photos (disk2, another disk / partition) /home/src (disk3, another disk / partition) /home/work (disk3, another disk / partition)
Taylor@NullTheFool I do, because my /home is on an HDD, while the rest is on a SSD.
In the future, I'll probably go all RAID1 solid state and then I won't bother.
In the future, I'll probably go all RAID1 solid state and then I won't bother.
Flynn Mandrake@NullTheFool
Yup. Makes reinstalling your OS *much* easier
Yup. Makes reinstalling your OS *much* easier