partition can be nice. New version of the OS?
/home partition untouched. Remember to save a copy of your configuration files, though! • A separate partition for anything which may accumulate a large quantity of files that may need to be deleted can be faster to reformat and recreate than to delete. See the building by source FAQ for an example (/usr/obj). • If you wish to rebuild your system from source for any reason, the source will be in /usr/src. If you don’t make a separate partition for /usr/src, make sure /usr has sufficient space. • A commonly forgotten fact: you do not have to allocate all space on a drive when you set the system up! Since you will now find it a challenge to buy a new drive smaller than 20G, it can make sense to leave a chunk of your drive unallocated. If you outgrow a partition, you can allocate a new partition from your unused space, duplicate your existing partition to the new partition, change /etc/fstab to point to the new partition, remount, you now have more space. • If you make your partitions too
