What needs commenting about the installation process?

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Jerry3904
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Re: What needs commenting about the installation process?

#11 Post by Jerry3904 »

I got the pop up windows too.
What's in those windows?
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Re: What needs commenting about the installation process?

#12 Post by Utopia »

A very short explanation about the practical difference between a separate home partition and home in root could be useful.
Have only found one example where home in the root partition is a better choice, that's when you're using apps that produce very large temporary files. /var/tmp can fill up pretty fast and there's no way to make it larger with a separate home. Must be other pros and cons?
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Re: What needs commenting about the installation process?

#13 Post by Gaer Boy »

Utopia wrote:A very short explanation about the practical difference between a separate home partition and home in root could be useful.
Have only found one example where home in the root partition is a better choice, that's when you're using apps that produce very large temporary files. /var/tmp can fill up pretty fast and there's no way to make it larger with a separate home. Must be other pros and cons?
Henry
I started with a separate /home partition and only changed when I began to try multiple distros. A shared /home risked conflicts in settings and when I got to 8 installed distros, I ran out of partitions. I'm now much happier with /home in root and all my data on separate partitions - including my Iceweasel & Thunderbird profiles.

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Re: What needs commenting about the installation process?

#14 Post by topcat »

I roll the same as Gaer Boy...
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Re: What needs commenting about the installation process?

#15 Post by lucky9 »

I have three with separate /home partitions. And three with /home in the /root partition. The latter are testing and familiarization installs.

Separate data partition.
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