December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
410 pages
11h 5m
English
/home is generally where the user data is stored. Having a separate partition for /home provides two benefits; first, if some user decides to store a huge amount of data it will not affect the storage of other partitions, so essentially other things such as system processes will still work fine:

The other benefit is that we can easily target the /home partition for frequent backups since this is where generally the users store their files. This is a generic partition scheme. However, depending on the organization's use case, there can be many more partitions that might be needed.
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