[PLUG] /home/user partition question

[Richard C. Steffens]

Common practice is to have a user directory under /home. Many programs 
assume such a thing, and put stuff there. One of the arguments is that 
it makes backups easier. That's good, except that there are things I've 
kept from old installations that I need to integrate into my current 
installation without messing up other things. So, I can simply replace 
my current /home/rsteff with my old /home/rsteff.

Is it practical to consider creating a separate partition for Documents? 
Or are there programs out there that will want to put installation 
specific things into /home/rsteff/Documents?

If this is practical, then I could consider Documents as the place that 
wouldn't change from distro to distro, should I decide to try loading 
different distros on the machine.

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Regards,

Dick Steffens
www.dicksteffens.com