On Mon, 2022-02-07 at 14:12 -0800, jdow wrote:
Why bother with defining a separate /home at all? It gives a false sense of security.
There are various different reasons people do partitioning (whether that be home, boot, var, whatever). It's not all about security (or lack of).
You might want it completely separate (partition or different drive altogether) so that system updates can be done around /home without losing it. Of course you should have backups, but if you can keep /home during an update, that saves having to re-import it.
A 100% filled up home doesn't wedge the system.
You may actually want hard size limits on different partitions.
You may want different mounting options.
Historically, there was also that people chose partitions for speed optimisation (putting constantly accessed files into the fastest parts of the drive).