Hey Joe, I just wanted to let you know, you are universally respected in the the Linux community. No matter the sub-community or the platform, the phrase "pure gold" is commonly used to describe your videos, regardless of experience level. I just wanted to take a second to tell you that your work is appreciated.

To be honest, I believe it's more valuable to create a separate /var partition. The reason for this is that /var/log (and other subdirs, but log in particular) can really get BIG if you have a misbehaving daemon , or you have a web server that suddenly gets a bunch of traffic or if your mail daemon suddenly gets a lot of traffic or...a zillion reasons. If this happens and a rogue process eats up all the available disk, it can make logging in to fix it a tad challenging. By partitioning /var the worst that can happen is that logging, etc, stops but you can typically still get in and fix whatever's gone haywire relatively easily. (This may matter more in the case of server deployment than desktop deployment - but I've always done it (and I've built a LOT of unix/linux systems over the years) and it's saved me a bunch of headaches on more'n one occasion.

The bootloader goes on the device, not the partition. Let the installer put it where it prefers to. That's why there's blank space before your installation partitions no matter how precisely you enter bytes in their sizes, it requires a space on the device to put that info. Best not to touch it.

You don't reinstall the whole OS because of an unwanted partition!!! just modify fstab and get rid of the partition. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Yes. I made the mistake of not doing that. Now I can't distro hop without making massive changes

Once you switch to btrfs, partitions are meaningless. But I used to do the separate home partition, simply because it's easier to hop. Great video as always, Joe!

I never create a separate home partition. I always prefer to install a separate disk and use it to save files. This way I don't have to think twice before I nuke the entire system and reinstall

After my 2nd reinstall of Linux Mint, I determined that using a separate /home partition was good, made reinstalling Mint a way lot faster.

The whole point of putting your swap at the end of the drive was because of the different rotational speed of sectors on traditional hard drives on a platter. With an SSD, the random access speed is the same in any location, so swap can be anywhere on the drive, including in a swap file which might get fragmented, which was another reason to use a swap partition, so that all the swap space was guaranteed to remain one contiguous space.

You don't "need" a separate /home partition, but if you choose not to create one it's all on you. I will always create one, except in virtual machines, because the simplification and ease of upgrading or reinstalling the distribution is just too much of an advantage to give up.

having separate partition saved me multiple times.

Over the decades, I've evolved from putting /home on a separate partition to putting it on a separate drive, if possible. The greatest advantage of that being, I can completely blow away the entire OS installation, without even involving the /home drive if desired. Complete the reinstall like a normal first time install, then just change it so the (untouched) /home drive is mounted to the newly created /home folder the installation created. Or, since newer installers offer the option, select that /home drive during the install and just tell it not to format it.

Thanks Joe. This is exactly what I've been looking for. I've struggled with partitioning, and this goes a long way in addressing my concerns!

First I'ld like to say welcome back and secondly thank you. When I started using Linux I ran your vids (over and over) till the fog lifted. Great video!

Another very useful video and very informative.Thanks a lot Joe much appreciated.

Hey Joe, today I had to reinstall debian and I was concerned about my personal files. However, I managed to copy them successfully. Then I stumbled upon a video that taught me how to manage partitions on linux, which was something I had been looking for a long time. I am grateful for this amazing video and the knowledge that I gained. I hope this newfound knowledge will be useful throughout my lifetime. Thank you)

Haven't seen one of your videos for AAAAAGes, Joe. Welcome back, great to see your videos again.

Just fell over this video (now subscribed (. Excellent content and humour to boot. Rare in a Linux Guru 😎

Thank you - you rock! Happy to see more videos from you. Thanks again

Joe! Another great video - very informative, thanks!