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Hey folks!

I'm about to distro hop (again) to test Tumbleweed for a longer period of time ๐ŸฆŽ 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 :)

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[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

If you tend to distro hop or want to change fundamentals of your system, having the home partition can be a boon. You can re-install your entire system without changing the home partition, keeping all your documents/files/etc... Thats typically why people do that. Personally, I just have a network drive for that sort of stuff and keep everything important there, but it can save you time.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I do this too! A lot more convenient for me as I have multiple computers needing the same files.

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