[COLUG] Partition Size

[Josh]

Ed Dunagin wrote:

"Am I missing something? When we had the smaller, least expensive hard
drives, I used to split my partitions up. But now, I have an inexpensive 
122GB H/D and do not set up any partitions and use all of it."

Here's another benefit: data security.

If you have to re-install, or like to swap distros a lot, or have multiple 
OS's in your bootloader, having a separate /home partition should make you 
feel more comfortable as you can share that partition among OS's or be 
relatively sure that it's not clobbered by an installer that is writing 
stuff to /usr, /var, /etc, etc...

Cheers,
-J