On Monday 28 April 2003 18:36, Tom Nielsen wrote:
On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 09:28, Jerry Feldman wrote:
If you religiously back up your system, then your partitioning could make a big difference. I back up only /home. I maintain a source directory in /home so that anything I download independently of SuSE is there. But, for a home system, generally, a root, /home and /usr/local directories should suffice. Making too many file system then becomes a management headache, but LVM eases the problem.
Do you think my first comment about moving my /home directory to a /home partition on another drive is safe and I won't have any program launching problems? I don't mind experimenting on my home system, but I can't risk going down at work.
I would. But again, it is a matter of choice. If you have two drives, one with / and one with /home, I doubt that both would go bad at the same time. If you lose your / drive then a re-install should get you back. If you lose your /home drive (and you have a backup) you restore that. I backup my entire system, but I know quite a few folks that only backup /home.
I backup my work system, but rarely my home.
If you don't mind losing the stuff at home, that's fine. Mike -- Powered by SuSE 8.1 Kernel 2.4.19 KDE 3.1.1 Kmail 1.5.1 For SuSE Mondo/Mindi backup support go to http://www.mikenjane.net/~mike 6:47pm up 8 days, 21:50, 5 users, load average: 1.38, 1.71, 1.80