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czernitko wrote:


> I would like to have only one partition with all home directories on it,
> and I would like to avoid usage of initrd as I don't use it now and I
> would like to keep it that way if possible.

You don't need an initramfs but you might want to reconsider not using one 
at some point. I avoided them for a long time but when I wanted to do whole 
disk encrypted I learned how to make my own (not particularly difficult) and 
later started using dracut which basically "just works".