On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 13:06 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > [...]I have an alternate suggestion. It's useful to have /home on its > own partition, because that way, you can keep your user data isolated from > OS data. If you want to switch distributions, or just do an "upgrade" but > start from scratch to get a clean slate, you can then leave your /home > partition (and all of your user data) untouched, but completely wipe /. I do > this all the time, in fact. Hi, Just read this post and this seems like a good idea, but I remember seeing some other things (can't remember details) which seemed against the idea of introducing disc partitions on the same OS - "it's a bit like putting a fence in your _own_ garden" is one analogy which has stuck in my mind. I was wondering if you or anyone else could tell me if there are any specific disadvantages to doing what you suggest? S.
