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 Since I’ve been doing it for years, I could be doing it in an outdated way, so I thought I should ask.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 But maybe it was just explained to me wrong and I really am doing it in an outdated way.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.

  • Mambabasa@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    How about when I need to reinstall the OS? Will overwriting / not touch /home like with my current set up?

    • Illecors@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I don’t know how mint installer works, but ideally you’re never really writing to / of the filesystem to begin with. You always do a subvolume and manipulate that.