On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 22:02 -0400, Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Thursday 01 June 2006 21:11, Ken Schneider wrote:
We can argue until we're blue in the face but I don't think you really mean this......
If I then do a fresh install (I always do) then I am supposed to lose my bookmarks, documents in the doc file, my Mail directory etc etc.
No! That is why you are creating the "data" partition for. Copy the stuff you want to save there first, hell copy your whole home dir there first (which is what I do, actually to another PC) then do your fresh install.
Ok Ken.... you're not arguing with the OP on this... but me.
So he copies all of his current /home to be /data (or just remounts it) and then leaves his 'home' in the root. What has he gained? He's been separated from all the things I mentioned above.... mail, bookmarks, etc. They are still there on /data but they are not easily used from there.
And the next time he builds a new system what does he do? Now he COPIES his home dir over to somewhere else? Just don't think this is a good plan and not many of us would follow it.
You copy back to home the things you need, your bookmarks, mail etc., allowing you to start with as little baggage from the old system as is necessary in the new system. You also end up with more usable space because there is no need to guess as to how much space you need. I never run with more than three main partitions small /boot, swap and the rest to /. I have an extra drive dedicated for storage that never gets touched during install. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com