Life on the bleeding edge

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, JoeHill wrote:

> On 26 Sep 2006 20:51:32 -0400
> Tim Writer got an infinite number of monkeys to type out:
>
>> For a notebook/desktop user coming from Windows, a single large partition is
>> probably easier to understand.
>
> Without a /home partition, wouldn't they be kinda lost? ie., they would have
> no place to keep their personal files?
>
> I'm only asking because of the three distros I've tried, only Debian did not
> create a /home dir by default, IIRC.

    A directory is not a partition.

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