should home be a separate partition? i've never done that before

@georgia it's a good safety mechanism in a multiuser system to prevent the system partition from filling up but for a personal setup probably not necessary

@Moon @georgia It's useful when reinstalling or distro-hopping though.

@lanodan @Moon i may distro hop but what are the downsides

@georgia @Moon Partitioning always means less disk space you can use as the sizes are quite static, quite like adding walls into a house.

(there is some filesystems like ZFS and btrfs which allows more dynamic ones but it's not integrated on all distros yet AFAIK)

@lanodan @georgia @Moon don't fall for the dynamic partitioning meme

@takao @georgia @Moon I've been using ZFS since 2007 and it has yet to fail me.

@lanodan @Moon @georgia you poor soul, you.

@takao @georgia @Moon Nah, you poor souls on fsck'd filesystems.

@lanodan @Moon @georgia btw I use XFS

@takao @georgia @Moon That's the one I use for some of my removable storage as it works between more systems than ZFS (which otherwise is pretty much the only modern filesystem that works between Linux and all the BSDs).

@lanodan @takao @Moon i can understand zfs for a NAS or something but this is just a laptop

@georgia @Moon @takao zfs on a laptop is actually pretty neat.

Power cut because of the battery?
It *will* still boot up back fine, no files lost.

Not enough diskspace?
Compression can help quite a lot (and barely eats CPU, and tends to eases I/Os as there is less sectors to read).

@lanodan @georgia @Moon @takao hmm

@MischievousTomato @lanodan @Moon @takao zfs is oracle though ew

@georgia @MischievousTomato @Moon @takao Eww, no. :(((

ZFS isn't god damn Oracle, IIRC most if not all the ZFS engineers left before or shortly after the acquisition of Sun.

@lanodan @georgia @MischievousTomato @takao now we know how to make lanodan mad