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What Partition Considerations Do You Have When Installing Linux?

I prefer to have 3 partitions by default when I'm installing Linux. It's
usually a good idea to prepare the hard drives, partition it before hand
when installing your operating system. I prefer to have /boot, / (root)
and /home in separate partitions.

I have /boot so I can ensure that my system will boot at least into a
console if I needed to make some maintenance jobs to grub or to
/etc/fstab. With /boot I have some way of editing the system files.

Of course / is where the operating system files are.

I have /home to protect my files and to ensure I can make backups. If
you need to jump from a distro to another one, all that you have to do
is install it on / and then mount the existing /home to your
installation. A lot of new users are asking how to install a distro
without wiping out their data. Keep your data on a separate partition
and your /home (user data) becomes portable.

Some other partition schemes are available according to one's needs and
use cases. Some would like to have /var/log on a separate partition for
their servers. If you need to have a particular directory to have unique
permissions and to not permit executable perhaps you should consider
putting them in a separate partition.

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