if i want to make a separate partition for /home than the root one, how big should i make it versus the root partition? like, presumably most of the space would be for where the users live, but how much should i leave for other os stuff? 20gb, 100gb, 500gb? i dont really have a head for the sizes of things in linux yet
@typhlosion
What I actually personally did was use two different drives, putting an ssd for the root directory, then a big hard drive for home.
But then, I personally tend to have lots of junk laying around on my computer, and it's mostly in the home directory.
Also, doing this means even if I totally format my ssd, most of my data's fine because it's on the other drive.
I ran for a long time without having home be separate at all, so it's not really necessary. Comes in handy if I need to reinstall, though.
@SweetAIBelle yeah the main thing for me is that i don't know for sure if i want to 100% commit to this distro yet, so i figure having a separate home partition of some kind is best in case i want to pull up roots and install something else
@SweetAIBelle i would use a separate disk altogether for home, but the other thing to consider is that i'm dual booting on this system, and would like windows to have some of that space too, so it sort of becomes a balancing act of how do i split up this space
i figure since im booting linux off a 1tb nvme drive, i can just break off some of that space for a separate home partition
@typhlosion
Totally understood. I've reinstalled a few times since separating the two, and it makes reinstalls a lot easier.
With my personal setup, since they are on different drives, I wound up with root being 439GB, and 3.6T for my home.