On Thursday 01 June 2006 15:53, Ken Schneider wrote:
Why separate /home at all. Trying to guess how much space to allocate to what partition is archace and a left over from 15 years ago. Use a separate partition large enough (plus room for growth) for your data, one for boot and the rest for /. No more guessing as to how much space you need for home.
I don't know about these ideas, Kevin and Ken. Planning the amount of space for a /data partition is really no different than planning space for a /home partition, right? Isn't it the same question, ultimately? It seems to me like it's just an exercise in shifting shares of storage space around. And what, exactly, is gained by splitting out data while leaving user profiles and preferences, bookmarks, etc. on the same partition as '/'? My understanding is that the whole purpose behind splitting /home off as a separate partition is to help preserve the integrity of the overall system... by keeping user profiles, preferences *and* data isolated from the relative volatility/fragility of the system core... and vice versa. My approach to your situation, Kevin, would be to retain /home... which isn't normally formatted during installation (unless it's empty)... move /kevin to /.kevin so the 'create user' portion of the installation process creates a completely new user environment. This strategy gains you immediate access to your previous profile, preferences and data (in Konqueror or a shell) for ad hoc, or "piecemeal" 'porting' into your new environment. And, yes, I'd backup everything important beforehand. regards, Carl -- 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