pajudd said:
Malke,
Well aren't you a wondrous addition to the universe!
Perhaps you could also speculate why the evil MS Empire conspired in the
first place to put Docs and Sys stuff on the same partition? This concept
has greatly increased my computer tutoring income by chasing clients lost
files and mangled systems. You see they found backups daunting (ie.e
didn't do them) mostly because of said glaring error.
I can't tell from your post whether my advice helped and solved your issue
or you're just being sarcastic. I hope the former.
As for your other questions, I can't possibly answer why Microsoft designed
their software the way they did. If you consider the company evil, use
something else. OS X puts data on the same partition as the operating
system by default (although you can certainly change it). I'm very happy
with my Mac but of course it isn't Open Source. Most Linux distros
put /home in a separate partition; if the distro you're interested in
doesn't do this by default you can always mount /home where you want it.
Malke