The last two posts are exactly why I partitioned my system as one single partition.
- I never though about moving the /home partition to another drive. This is good reasoning. - Also never thought of putting /etc on another partition. Once again good reasoning. I hate losing all my custome settings.
One last thing - once you have re-installed SUSE, how do you get it to see the old /home and /etc drives in place of the newly created ones - is this handled during server setup when the partitioning options are made avaliable (in custom partitioning mode) or is it handled manually after the install is complete?
I've always kept /home on a separate partition, then, if I'm reinstalling, before doing so, I rename /home/user to /home/user.old Then simply have the partition mounted as /home during the reinstall (select custom partitioning) but for goodness' sake make sure you don't format it! Once everything is finished, you can just move the files you want across from ./user.old to the new ./user I guess you can just do the same for /etc David