Jonathan Lutz wrote:
Ok.. so for an "intermediate" user such as myself who does not want to lose data on upgrade, is it OK to put /home on a seperate partition? Only other OS is Windows, on a seperate HDD.. :)
yes. you only must have to be very conservative when doing your next system update. with recent hudge drives, it's simple to use 10Gb partitions (ans let the rest unpartitionned if you have no use of it now). so then, never maque an update. Do a fresh install on a new partition (and new /home), then link or copy from the old ones. this is quite safe. don't forget one don't update Linux very frequently (I used to keep linux 2 or three years on production machines), so when you do it, the differences are great. buit, of course, at that time you may have also a new terabytes disk :-) jdd -- pour m'écrire, aller sur: http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.net http://arvamip.free.fr