Partitioning questions

So I understand the use of a / partition and a swap partition.
Why do I need a /home partition? What are the advantages of a /boot partition?

VoodooSteve wrote:A separate /home is nice so that you can reinstall your system leaving your settings and documents intact. Not exactly sure about /boot.
A separate /boot partition is handy so you can keep your kernels and images all in one place, even for more than one distro -- for example, Arch, Ubuntu, and fill-in-your-distro-here can all share a /boot partition so you have only one menu to look at during boot.  The only problem with that is that some distros *cough*ubuntu*cough* assume that they have sole control of the bootloader, so it can throw off your menu.lst when e.g. you upgrade your kernel.
You can use a /home partition with multiple simultaneous installations, too, but usually the reason I boot into other OSes is because I need to run programs I don't care to have messing with my $HOME, so I don't do that.

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    ╚═══===═══[~]>>
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    If I select, say, /dev/sda2, which will be the /boot partition, I'm given the following message:
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    I opened up a new terminal, ran fdisk -l and saw that there was indeed a /dev/sda2 which indeed is partitioned as 83
    say yes to the filesystem (re)created ...
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  • Partition questions for upgrade

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