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Is there a reason that /home is not on its own partition anymore by default? The advatage of having it on its own are that when you do a new instalation, you can easily keep your own data.
I'd agree that this even something that should be made easy and /strongly suggested/ to the users. Upgrades don't always end up flawlessly and sometimes, installing from scratch is the better option, especially when you're skipping releases (say: 8.2 -> 10.0 ;)). Having /home on a separate partition is obviously very interesting when one does that. Also to show that with [SUSE] Linux, when you reinstall, you don't loose all your data ;) Fedora (at least on FC4) is taking another interesting direction: from what I've heard, they seem to automatically propose the default partitioning setup with LVM. (I didn't say SUSE should do that as well, I said "interesting" ;)). Has a number of pros and cons. - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <pascal.bleser@skynet.be> <guru@unixtech.be> _\_v The more things change, the more they stay insane. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDEBfIr3NMWliFcXcRAkH0AKC2D+N42tWQX36CW0LYE2vpyfu6MQCgp8Nq j/9FcKiUXQmrCphnYxROOOk= =XY/g -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----