F.G.Knuts wrote:
Le Mercredi 14 Janvier 2004 06:16, Russ a écrit :
HI All,
When I was dealing with Mandrake, they suggested using different partitions for /, /usr, and /home. SuSE puts it all on one big partition. Is there some reason for that? I was just wondering because I may be forced to reinstall this thing again which would mean all my settings are toast.
If multiple partitions are the way to go, is it possible to get /usr and /home together on one partition? Slightly different but when I installed SuSE 9.0 I was able to do custom
Sid Boyce wrote: partitioning. This enabled me to create mount points on each partition. From what I can see in the fstab file /usr, /home and /var etc are all on different partitions. I have to reinstall several times to get the setup I wanted and each time I did an install I chose the custom partitioning which allowed me to format/leave a certain partition alone. With the above custom partitioning you could leave the individual /usr /home and /etc(A lot of settings are stored here) partitions well alone and reinstall the root / directory and still have all your settings on the new system. ... [snip] ... -- The Little Helper ======================================================================== Hylton Conacher - Licenced ex-Windows user (apart from Quicken) Registered Linux user # 229959 at http://counter.li.org Using SuSE 9.0 with KDE 3.1 ========================================================================