/home and standalone workstation

["Claire Marshall" <claire marshall mailcity com>]

What's the point of having a /home partition in a Red Hat Linux Kernel 2.0.34 standalone workstation?.  Although I *might* allocate some space for my boyfriend and a couple of friends, at present I am the only one using Linux.

Can the 101MB be more useful by using this space to create a rather more, ahem, useful partition?. If the answer is yes, which one???.

MY Current Disk Partitions
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Mount Point   Device     Actual     Type
                       hda1       2063M     0x0c
/                     hda5         101M      Linux Native
/usr                hda6        1435M     Linux Native
/usr/local       hda7          305M     Linux Native
                      hda8           109M    Linux Swap
/home            hda9           101M    Linux Native

About my system:

Pentium II 233 MHz
64MB RAM
4.3 GB EIDE UDMA HD
hda1 is my Win95 partition. I have NOT installed LILO  because I used FIPS to split my FAT32 partition in two. The second partition created is an EXTENDED partition which I had to split (this time with Linux fdisk) to install RH 5.1. 



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