On 06/08/2015 06:12 PM, Kay Schenk wrote:
On 06/08/2015 02:00 PM, g wrote:
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just what do you want for a 1st choice?
I think Peter addressed my concern and responded in a way that leads me to believe a /home2 as you suggest is not necessary since it will be bypassed in terms of any installation, which is what I want.
true he went into detail. during install of os, the option of *custom* allows you to 'slice and dice' a disk into however many proportions of what ever size you desire.
custom allows creating partitions and setting mount points for _all_ partitions for what ever root path you want. this is how home2 is how to mount and get /home2.
advantages of /home2 is you have a user home directory for all your flavors sitting in 1 partition that will not get erased because you are allocating it's own mount point when you install.
I do not have and do not want one partition for my system (files). I have ONE flavor with many partitions and mount points. A rather "old school" approach that's worked pretty well for me all these years.
i never said you had to use one partition for any files.
multi partitions for / paths is not really "old school". it is a feature of "custom". you define what each partition is use for.
ie, partition for boot, partition for swap, partition for /, partition home, partition for usr, partition for var, partition for home2, partition for what ever.