On 02/13/2016 03:50 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
I still like making /home its own file system, and if I'm running a substantial (non-trivial) database server, it also has its own volume, quite likely on its own raid.
I've done this for close to 20 years (19 years this April, to be exact); my current /home has been copied mostly intact (some dotfile stuff left behind, of course) since my Red Hat Linux 4 days.
It makes certain operations simpler and safer; things like completely reinstalling the OS if required aren't nearly as problematic with a separate /home (I did this to be able to change / from ext3 to xfs once, for an example).