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Idea #314: offer to create a separate /home partition

bug This idea is a duplicate of Idea #5390: Offer to create a separate /home partition and use existing ones.
Written by frandavid100 the 29 Feb 08 at 00:32. Category: Installation. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
Rationale
A separate partition for /home has been proposed for a long time in the forums. It implies some risks, though, so Ubiquity should estimate the amount of space that should be left for / or whether a separate partition should be made at all, then offer the user the option to do it through a most simple dialogue:

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Written by frandavid100 the 29 Feb 08 at 00:32.
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spec Blueprint ubiquity-preserve-home: Ubuntu
forum Ubuntuforums.org thread #410093


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mexlinux wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 00:33
AGREE!
This is very usefull for us that make clean install with every release, every 6 months!

ailurus wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 01:29
Glad to see SOMEONE posted this idea :) I was gonna if I didn't see it. This would be quite a useful feature. Hope they implement it.

pape wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 12:06
Yep, makes it easier to do clean installs, of swich distros.

harrie wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 13:09
This is one to be implemented. Great idea!

webs05 wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 15:10
Duplicate

There is already one with 600 more votes...

frandavid100 wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 15:28
Would you care to give a link of the dupe?

koni-ubuntu wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 17:33
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/138/

peterdk wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 19:32
Not a total dupe, because that one is only about the preservation of existing /home . This one is about standard creating a /home when installing ubuntu.

guisar wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 19:38
I don't get it. I manually create my partitions (don't you?) and this absolutely one of the main reasons why. I can't imagine anyone installing any operating system without creating a separate partition for /home. Use the manual partition system and do this- don't accept any other layout- there is no reason for /home to be part of /!

cardinals_fan wrote on the 1 Mar 08 at 01:47
I now have a couple years of Linux experience (currently on Zenwalk), but when I started out (with Ubuntu) I knew basically zero about partitioning. I set up /home inside /, and when I installed a second distro I regretted it. /home should be separate if at all possible.

frandavid100 wrote on the 1 Mar 08 at 07:21
@guisar: yeah, that's the gist of it. See what happened to cardinals_fan, that's a process just about everyone who comes to Linux has to undergo now.

I would like to save it to them.

jepong wrote on the 1 Mar 08 at 22:51
@frandavid100

thanks for posting this suggestion.

this is one feature i miss so much while testing other distro (like openSuse, which create separate partition on clean install) in Ubuntu.

mannakiosk wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 11:15
I agree this is best in most cases. However, if I install on a 4 Gb hdd I want to put home and / on the same partition.


frandavid100 wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 16:38
Mannakiosk, if you read how it should work you'll see that's exactly how it's supposed to be:

"2C. If the hard drive is less than 10 GB, there should not be a separate /home partition "

larryfroot wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 18:02
Am a big fan of the idea of /home partition...but I am not entirely comfortable organising myself one without a lot of hand-holding...help to do so would be really, really good for a lot of new or intermediate users.

jmphilippe wrote on the 12 Mar 08 at 20:37
In my point of view a separate /home partition should be the default! I recently had a disk failure on a PC and the / partition had some directories destroyed as the /home partition was safe. To me having personal data in the system partition is one of the most stupid things in windows! (sure this is also due to the need of frequently reinstalling it ;-) )

atomicblue wrote on the 24 Jun 10 at 21:14
Not only does it protect the user from data loss, but it is an added level of physical security, further restricting access to personal data.


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