<div><div><br>maybe to upgrade in place but the nice thing about a separate /home is that you can easily change the entire underlying directory structure. you can change linux distro's. hell you could probably even move to BSD or something else without losing anything.
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Some people insist upon a separate home directory,<br>so they can delete the rest of the filesystem without loosing their
<br>personal data and settings, but Ubuntu (as well as its base, Debian) is<br>easy to upgrade in place.<br><br> Chick<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>linux-user mailing list
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