Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4165 mails)

[Tom Nielsen <Tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 09:59, Jerry Feldman wrote:

> On 28 Apr 2003 09:36:29 -0700
> Tom Nielsen <Tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> It is safe, but I don't see much of an advantage. I've seen heavily used
> drives run for years and lightly used drives fail. 
> What I do is to backup my /home directory onto a separate drive. I also
> have a copy of the root directory from when I installed SuSE 8.1. So, if
> my boot drive fails, I can easily boot my second drive. 

It's really not a matter of backing up that I'm concerned with, but more
of future upgrades and having problems with things going wrong and
losing my /home files. 

>From what I understand, if I put my home directory on it's own partition
and I have a bad upgrade (like I did this weekend) and need to format my
drive and reinstall, I won't lose the files in my home directory because
they will be on their own partition. Correct?

I'm sorry if I'm going around in circles here, I hate asking stuff over
email because questions keep poping up in my head. 

Thanks



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Tom Nielsen
Neuro Logic Systems
805.389.5435 x18
www.neuro-logic.com