Hey folks!

I’m about to distro hop (again) to test Tumbleweed for a longer period of time 🦎 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 :)

  • deadcatbounce@reddthat.comEnglish
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    14 days ago

    Always. Losing the root fs doesn’t mean I lose the home fs.

    Even on btrfs, and I currently do, I use a separate fs; to me it’s not about having a separate partition but having a separate fs.

    I am not prepared to lose my home data.

    I have /efi, /home, /.