On Sat 01 Dec 2018 at 10:02:29 (-0500), rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Friday, November 30, 2018 07:26:33 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 30 November 2018 13:58:52 Michael Stone wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 05:23:09PM +0000, Michael Thompson wrote: > > > >Because if your root partition fails, you can reinstall and all your > > > > > > > > files are safe on their own partition... > > > > > > ...leaving open the question of how likely that scenario is. > > > > Not bloody likely Michael, if the disk is toast, so are all its > > partitions as a general rule. If you are going to put you /home on a > > separate partition, put it on a different disk. > > > > Unfortunately that has NOT been acceptable to the installer for most of a > > decade now. > > Hmm, it hasn't been 10 years since I installed Jessie, yet I have my top > level > directories (e.g., /abc, which hold my data directories (e.g., > /abc/Documents)) on a separate disk, and I'm rather certain I did that with > the installer -- maybe I used a different version of the installer (or maybe > I'm mis-remembering -- maybe I created those partitions (on a separate disk) > after the installation. > > But, I've thought about it for a few moments, and I'm more certain I did that > with the installer...
Gene's relationship with the Debian installer has been what can only be described as "interesting". Take, for example, https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/02/msg00128.html which is the part of a series of threads from early that year. As someone who hasn't installed Debian onto anything other than preexisting partitions since the last century, I can't understand that thread. Likewise, having installed Debian onto partitions across multiple disks, I have to disagree with Gene again. But on the OT topic, I don't put /home on a separate disk to ameliorate hardware failures, but because the original (SATA) disks in these (loaned, 2006) machines are, as always, small by modern standards (80GB), so I build the duplicate systems on them, and put /home on one of my own (2006–2008) 500GB disks. It will also make it more convenient if and when the machines are recalled. Cheers, David.
