Re: /home and standalone workstation

[Eric Lee Green <eric linux-hw com>]

On Sun, 6 Sep 1998, Claire Marshall wrote:
> 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.

/home is where you keep personal files that you want to preserve in case
your main partition gets bombed. You probably will back up /home more
regularly than the rest of your system too. 

If you download graphics and music files from the net you'll fill up 100mb
real quick.   If not, you'll fill up 100mb real slowly. In any event,
unless you're really cramped for space there's no reason to modify the
size of your /home. 100mb sounds about right (/home/eric on my personal
machine here at home has about that much stuff in it, accumulated over the
past ten years and three different operating systems).  

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