Heya folks, some people online told me I was doing partitions wrong, but I’ve been doing it this way for years. Since I’ve been doing it for years, I could be doing it in an outdated way, so I thought I should ask.
I have separate partitions for EFI, /, swap, and /home. Am I doing it wrong? Here’s how my partition table looks like:
- FAT32: EFI
- BTRFS:
/ - Swap: Swap
- Ext4:
/home
I set it up this way so that if I need to reinstall Linux, I can just overwrite / while preserving /home and just keep working after a new install with very few hiccups. Someone told me there’s no reason to use multiple partitions, but several times I have needed to reinstall the OS (Linux Mint) while preserving /home so this advice makes zero sense for me. But maybe it was just explained to me wrong and I really am doing it in an outdated way. I’d like to read what you say about this though.
That’s the standard way. It’s how (most) distros partition by default.
Really? Default for Linux Mint has
/and/homein one partition. So reinstalling erases/homeas well.Yes, but afaik, in the installer there is at least the option to select a separate home partition.
I think they did that because of old disks, avoid fragmentation and if one partitions is corrupted you can always recover the important files on
/homeand things like that, not sure neither. 🫤