Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3605 mails)

[Ken Schneider <suse-list2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 15:25 -0400, mlist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I wanna make a /data partition to house all the stuff that I currently keep
> in /home, so that I can blow away my /home for the 10.1 installation. I
> don't want to have any lingering config or profile stuff that might conflict
> in any way with the new install, so I'd format even /home.
> 
> So tell me... does this sound like the simplest strategy:
> 
> 1) Back up everything useful (of course)
> 
> 2) Plug in the 10.1 DVD and start installing.
> 
> 3) When I get the option to partition, I just change the mount name of my
> current /home to /data
> 
> 4) Allocate the rest of the drives in whatever way seems pleasing, but carve
> off a small corner of one to become the new /home.

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.

-- 
Ken Schneider
UNIX  since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE  since 1998


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