On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 03:21:33PM +0200, jdd wrote:
houghi wrote:
If you want to realy experiment, you can still put ~/home where you want it. For me it still comes down to this: Loose my data with an upgrade, or keep it?
if you use a separate partition for home, the upgrade will use it also, so the risk is the same.
An upgrade would (or could) see the /home partition and not overwrite it
I know of a friend installing suse on a windows box. to preserve it's dear windows, don't trusting suse, he went to expert mode... and wiped the disk.
Wiping your disk is domething everybody should have experienced. It is kind of an initiation rite, like a DNS admin forgetting a trailing dot. :-)
but I have only one :-) I use the cheaper PC I could afford some months ago :-(. but on this 80Gb disk, I use really 10Gb permanently (the others not used or used to store cd images)
by the way I probably did this manually on the first install and forget it :-(
As far as I can see in this list, most have ~/home on a seperate partition, so why not make it default? Those who do not want it can just change is, just like people can change it now. -- houghi http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/Making_a_DVD_from_CDs