[Fedora-livecd-list] Simple persistence idea, /home only

[Kai Engert]

I've seen messages about complete persistence, which is, make sure all 
changes to the filesystem are persistent.

However, for end user tasks it might be sufficient to offer persistence 
of the /home directory.

Has the following idea been proposed already?
I figure it would be easy to do.

During boot, scan for a partition with a given label, say, "fedoralivehome".
If present, that partition gets mounted as /home.
As a consequence, all user settings and documents are kept across boots.
An usb stick could be partitioned to have the second partition as /home.

Does this idea make sense?

Thanks,
Kai

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