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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Are those ex-Windows users slowing you down in any way?

And anyway, if you are talking about desktops, I've been using only / and /home for about 20 years since I noticed that /boot and /var didn't bring me any value for a really long time. I'm currently wondering if I shouldn't ditch /home.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Wow, I can't believe I'm reading that first point from a 2018 comment. I'd mock it if it was in 2006.

You should have backups. Not hedge against 1 in 10 million error conditions.

The second one is a huge bother in desktops. I never not regretted trying it.

The third one is a complete non-problem.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

You should have backups. Not hedge against 1 in 10 million error conditions.

if a partition isn't actively written to, it's less likely to suffer damage

The second one is a huge bother in desktops. I never not regretted trying it.

ok

The third one is a complete non-problem.

This is only a problem with OpenBSD. They never encourage using a huge single root partition, and never test it.

It have an asterisk, not a -