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Idea #8691: Different partition for Home folder



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Written by Primož Papič the 16 May 08 at 21:25. Category: System.
Related to: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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Probably an dupe, but it dosen't finds it.
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Priority: high
Realisation: Easy
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I think this already done in Ubuntu, it's not done in Kubuntu.
It would save us a lot of troubles if Home folder would be on different partition then rest of the OS, so if you've done something wrong and have to reinstall you just install everything else but the home folder. Experienced Linux users are probably able to that already but it would be nice that this could be easily done by all of Ubuntu users.
For this to work properly the installation should ask if you want to use existing home partition.
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I have just realised that this is more or less Kubuntu problem as Ubuntu imports user directory (at least from windows, not sure about Linux). But still think this could be great idea, as it would make a your home folder more secure if any thing bad happens like experimenting with rm -rf.
Also you could do an clean install of newest version, again something more for Kubuntu (I know that I will do clean install when KDE 4.1 comes) without backing up your personal data (it's still preferable to do this, just to be on the safe side)
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Hope I'm making some sense. Just thought that this would be an good idea.
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LC всадник cbet wrote on the 17 May 08 at 03:16
This is already possible in Ubuntu since when you install you can simply do the partitioning and naming it /home and the other /
said that we should bear in mind two points:

1. Not all users remember to do that at install so a little reminder could pop up when partitioning suggesting user to portioning /home separately.

2. As more PC`s are shipped with Ubuntu from factory we should consider making the partitioning (when feasible) a factory default, that includes convincing PC sellers to do so.


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