Your Gate To Better & Faster Internet

source: http://embraceubuntu.com/2006/01/29/move-home-to-its-own-partition/ Having the “/home” directory tree on it’s own partition has several advantages, the biggest perhaps being that you can reinstall the OS (or even a different distro of Linux) without losing all your data. You can do this by keeping the /home partition unchanged and reinstalling the OS which goes in the “/” (root) [...]