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...#39; he could partition what every his heart desired. ;-) for my 'base' os partitioning is /boot, swap, /, /home. all additional installs are /, swap, /home. after install if/and install part 2 boot, i restart to base, i log in as root, copy grub.conf into /grub of base /boot as grub.conf-newosname. then i cut/paste lines into my main grub.conf. make notations in 'title' line. next i copy base /root files that customize user root so i have same 'root' operation across all installs. the i reboot to new install and set it up. > /home in a dedicated partition, sure. only way...

On 6/8/2015 5:08 PM, g wrote: > ie, partition for boot, partition for swap, partition for /, partition > home, partition for usr, partition for var, partition for home2, > partition for what ever. that model is not generally recommended anymore, at least not putting /usr on its own partition, there's just too many issues with that nowdays. I don't like putting /var in its