Hey folks!
I’m about to distro hop (again) to test Tumbleweed for a longer period of time 🦎 However, something i’ve not done before is to have my /home directory on a separate partition, should I? If I do it, should it be a different filesystem than the rest? (Been reading on OpenSuse TW forums and seen people mentioning that they use BTRFS for /home and XFS for the rest, or the other way around. Are there any benefits of using separate filesystems, or is this done to get the BTRFS backup for the /home dir?
What are the pros and cons of doing these changes to my system, lemmy know :)
If possible I put everything on the same partition. Too often have I run out of space somewhere without any benefit. I’ve gone through several distributions with the same partition. When you reinstall you can just delete everything except for /home. I never had any problems with that.
Of course with BTRFS putting everything in separate subvolumes is preferred for snapshots (and probably other stuff I don’t know about). BTRFS shares the disk space between all subvolumes.