Partitioning your drive is something that basically everyone on Linux does but what purpose does it actually serve and is there any reason why it might be better to avoid creating partitions in your d...
Hey it’s the one person who did what who is yet to have their home or / partition run out then realise they can’t expand it without formatting over the other /s
But seriously just /boot as a separate partition because it’s a fairly constant & known size, and allows you to make it be a simpler filesystem which helps with recovery, both because if the bootloader dies you can both easily access and recover the /boot partition most of the time, unlike with more complex/bigger filesystems, and you can have a journaling filesystem like xfs or btrfs on your main partition which reduces the chances of things being corrupted, generally meaning you won’t need to reinstall
That said if you want to change distro or something you can keep your home directory via a delicate dance with chroot which is the one thing /home may be good for avoiding, but you’ll likely break all your configs etc either way
Hey it’s the one person who did what who is yet to have their home or / partition run out then realise they can’t expand it without formatting over the other /s
But seriously just /boot as a separate partition because it’s a fairly constant & known size, and allows you to make it be a simpler filesystem which helps with recovery, both because if the bootloader dies you can both easily access and recover the /boot partition most of the time, unlike with more complex/bigger filesystems, and you can have a journaling filesystem like xfs or btrfs on your main partition which reduces the chances of things being corrupted, generally meaning you won’t need to reinstall
That said if you want to change distro or something you can keep your home directory via a delicate dance with chroot which is the one thing /home may be good for avoiding, but you’ll likely break all your configs etc either way