On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 03:28, Jerome R. Westrick wrote:
On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 04:37, C Hamel wrote:
On 21:52 Thu 28 Oct , James Knott wrote:
Backup the directory, then next time you install, create a /home partition.
Okay, People...
I'm almost scared to ask 'cuase it seams like a holy grail type thing with you guys, but.....
In the old days (before linux had decent file systems) you made separate partitions incase one of the other partions got trashed, it would not trash your data... (Note that it was usually the system partiions that got trashed...)
Now-a-days the file systems don't get trashed right?
Therefore the reason for having seperate partiitons has disappeared?
Or am I missing something?
I think your missing the idea that having a separate /home partition makes the upgrade path easier in terms of getting back to using your data. It does require a few extra steps at install time though. Mike