On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Nick Zentena wrote: nz> "COLPAERT, Koen" wrote: nz> > nz> > Hi, nz> > nz> > I finally decided to abandon Windows. Up till now, I had -as most of us nz> > I think- the choice between booting Win98 or SuSE 6.0. Since I'm nz> > upgrading to SuSE 6.3, the whole HD will be Linux. Now the question, nz> > When using Yast, I have the possibility to use the whole disk instead of nz> > partitioning. I presume it's possible to make a swap and native nz> > partition from that point. Is this correct and how does it involve the nz> > booting process ? Just hit the power switch and relax ... ? nz> nz> You can use the whole disk for Linux and still paration. Some reasons nz> why you should. It can make upgrading easier. My /home is on it's own. nz> So worse comes to worse I can just reformat the other stuff and not nz> worry about /home. The same thing with /usr/local. Keeping /var on it's nz> own means if something goes crazy and fills up /var/log it won't fill up nz> the whole system. nz> Another one to think about seperating, especially on a multi-user system is /var/spool/mail hate to have a user piss someone off and your system gets mail bombed, thus filling up which ever drive mail resides on. If you use procmail, you can take care of this with a system wide file that automatically directs all mail to the users /home/$USER/mail/Inbox file rather then /var/spool/mail/$USER just something to think about. nz> Nick nz> nz> -- S.Toms - tomas@primenet.com - homepage is in the works SuSE Linux v6.2+ - Kernel 2.2.13 If God wanted us to be brave, why did he give us legs? -- Marvin Kitman -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/