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Partitioning Schemes

OpenSUSE Leap 15 comes with new features and based on SUSE Linux Enterprise ... Now similarly create the /home, / and /var partitions, ...

Jun 17, 2008 · so i hope that i can install opensuse from the live cd, by: - first mounting my "/" partition when running the live cd - then removing everything except my /home dir - rename my home dir so it is not in the way during the install process - installing opensuse 11 without formatting the "/" partition

Separate /home partition helps you to keep your data (user data, settings etc) when you want to reinstall your distro or another distro.

Jan 15, 2019 · With a well-tested filesystem and regular backups, the risk of not using a separate /home partition is vanishingly small, in my experience. I've been using openSUSE 42.1 to 15.0 with only one primary ext4 partition. Until recently, I didn't even use a separate swap partition (dynamically adding a swap file always being an option, if ever ...

I was kind of surprised to see during the install that the proposed partition setup was for a BTRFS partition and a swap partition. No separate ...

Feb 27, 2009 · If you plan on having a separate partition for user data & settings (a "/home" partition) you should be fine with a partition smaller than your Windows XP partition. Personally, I install openSUSE on a 8.5 GB partition. I've installed all the software I need (even quite a bit I rarely use) and only use 50% of the partition.

I have a separate "home" partition. If during the installation I keep the home partition and do not format it, will I get compatibility problems ...

I'm installing Leap on a clean laptop. I like to have my home partition separate. So I edit the suggested partition and choose this option. I can select 3 options of the file system for the home partition: XFS, Ext4, BtrFS.

To provide more disk space to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, free the ... If /home does not reside on a separate partition, it is excluded to avoid data loss ...

15.01.2019 · I use btrfs for / and it includes /home, I use a separate data partition with xfs (I guess a pseudo home) for my files and use softlinks to things like Downloads, Pictures, Documents, standard config files (eg ~/.bashrc) etc. I'm not running snapshots these days on my main day to day laptops one runs Tumbleweed the other SLES 15.

The default partitioning setup is great. openSUSE creates a separate /home partition by default. This means that whenever something happens to ...

I'm installing Leap on a clean laptop. I like to have my home partition separate. So I edit the suggested partition and choose this option. I can select 3 options of the file system for the home partition: XFS, Ext4, BtrFS.

Bottom-line: In your place, I wouldn't go for a separate home partition unless I had a second physical drive I wanted to use for it. But if you' ...

28.12.2021 · Alternatively, you might want to install your user data under a separate partition, also mounted as /home, using any file system of your liking. This might come in handy if you plan on using multiple operating systems reading from, and writing to, a single user data partition.

This guide targets openSUSE Leap; however the differences between the ... want to install your user data under a separate partition, also mounted as /home ...

Hi all, fairly new to opensuse, been a long time arch user, is there any traps pitfalls with creating a separate home partition, not done this before on any distro as …

I was planning to remove the Windows and switch to install Kubuntu. My current situation is that I have my root (/) and /home partition separated in OpenSuse.

You'd have to create a separate partition for $HOME at the time of ... using openSuse, I was able to simply specify a partition/drive where ...