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 :)

  • Lvxferre@mander.xyzEnglish
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    23 days ago

    There’s no right answer.

    The Tumbleweed users are likely doing this separation just to use different partition formats for /home and /. It’s one of the reasons why you’d want a separated /home; the others being already mentioned by other users (easier distro-hopping, easy backups), as well as the con (sometimes you’ll have free space, but not in the partition where you need it).