Is there any reason to have a seperate home parition on Arch?

slughappy1 · 2009-03-30 06:39:53

Since it is a rolling release?

ChoK · 2009-03-30 06:48:57

There's no relation between being a rolling release and having a separate home partition.
Having a separate home partition allows you to use it with another distro in case of a dual boot.
It's also cleaner if you need to mount it via a live-cd for example. It's easier to backup your personal data, you can have a different filesystem, in case of disk failure, you don't have to format all your disk, etc ...

Ashren · 2009-03-30 06:51:57

It is always a good idea to keep your personal data/config files separated from /. If you break your installation to an unrecoverable state, you can always reinstall without touching /home.

slughappy1 · 2009-03-30 06:53:26

And if I have an encrypted LVM?

INCSlayer · 2009-03-30 07:01:53

having a encrypted LVM has nothing to do with having or not having a home partition

slughappy1 · 2009-03-30 07:37:45

Ok, thanks

japetto · 2009-03-30 13:59:43

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beg … ion_Scheme

markisthejob · 2009-03-30 14:55:27

Ive always had a seperate /home partition.Ive tried several distro's without losing any of my music etc.

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Is there any reason to have a seperate home parition on Arch?

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