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/home dir on a separate partition? Why/Why not? (self.linux)
submitted 1 month ago by Sunny to c/linux@lemmy.world
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Hey folks!

I'm about to distro hop (again) to test Tumbleweed for a longer period of time ๐ŸฆŽ However, something i've not done before is to have my /home directory on a separate partition, should I? If I do it, should it be a different filesystem than the rest? (Been reading on OpenSuse TW forums and seen people mentioning that they use BTRFS for /home and XFS for the rest, or the other way around. Are there any benefits of using separate filesystems, or is this done to get the BTRFS backup for the /home dir?

What are the pros and cons of doing these changes to my system, lemmy know :)

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[โ€“] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 3 points 1 month ago

If possible I put everything on the same partition. Too often have I run out of space somewhere without any benefit. I've gone through several distributions with the same partition. When you reinstall you can just delete everything except for /home. I never had any problems with that.

Of course with BTRFS putting everything in separate subvolumes is preferred for snapshots (and probably other stuff I don't know about). BTRFS shares the disk space between all subvolumes.