Rolling need a separate /home?
Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 10:47 pm
Since LMDE is a rolling distro, is it still recommended to have a separate /home partition?
The benefit of that seemed to be for updates to later versions - so you would still have the data and settings in /home. Then the / would get a reformat and new install of latest version. But now if that is no longer the case since one will be doing rolling updates, is there still a good reason to have a separate /home? I could only think of the case where someone was either hopping to the newest ISO of LMDE instead of letting it roll or changing distros altogether.
I found where in an Arch (a rolling distro) wiki they set it to have a separate /home (if using their auto method instead of manual); but I also found a discussion about rolling distros where someone did not think it was necessary.
So, just wanting some input before LMDE'ing it. Thanks!
-William
The benefit of that seemed to be for updates to later versions - so you would still have the data and settings in /home. Then the / would get a reformat and new install of latest version. But now if that is no longer the case since one will be doing rolling updates, is there still a good reason to have a separate /home? I could only think of the case where someone was either hopping to the newest ISO of LMDE instead of letting it roll or changing distros altogether.
I found where in an Arch (a rolling distro) wiki they set it to have a separate /home (if using their auto method instead of manual); but I also found a discussion about rolling distros where someone did not think it was necessary.
So, just wanting some input before LMDE'ing it. Thanks!
-William