On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 06:14:50PM +0100, Terje J. Hanssen wrote:
The idea is that first time users get a /home partition. The advatage of a /home partition is that if you do a new installation with 10.2 or later, your home partition will not be removed.
Maybe, maybe not. Next time at a 10.2 New installation (not Upgrade), won't Yast try to do the same, delete and split the last partition also then? As long as the last partition also is reformatted, everything on that partition will be wiped out.
Good point. Is there a way that you can analyze the mountpoints and recognize an existing (SUSE) /home partition so it can us that, although that will bring a LOT of other problems.
I still think it was better as previously, that Yast asked where to install the new Linux distro or version, when it discovered previous installed root (Reiser) file systems.
Ok. So it was more about the partitioning thing then about the /home thing. Even if there would be one partion, the same thing would apply. It si more about the deleting then the splitting.
To mentione, I keep my important user data on a FAT file system for common access (e.g. my Mozilla mail box) regardless of Linux distro or Win2k booted.
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