On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 09:59, Jerry Feldman wrote:
On 28 Apr 2003 09:36:29 -0700 Tom Nielsen
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.
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
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. 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 -- Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems 805.389.5435 x18 www.neuro-logic.com