partitioning drive for safety`
When I would set up a W$ NT box, I would always set up a different drive (D) for the apps and dta, with the OS residing on C. This way, if, or should I say when I had to reinstall toe OS, I could do it to drive C, leave D alone, and not lose my data. (Had to reinstall most programs though). This saved a lot of time. Now, my experience with Suse has been great, especially with ext3, but my paranoia want to know if this can be done on Linux, so to speak. Any suggestions? TIA Harry G
On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 05:50:41PM -0400, Harry G wrote:
When I would set up a W$ NT box, I would always set up a different drive (D) for the apps and dta, with the OS residing on C. This way, if, or should I say when I had to reinstall toe OS, I could do it to drive C, leave D alone, and not lose my data. (Had to reinstall most programs though).
Any suggestions?
Sure, you can do the exact same thing with linux, just make another partition and store your data there. You can even set the mount point of /home to the other partition so when upgrade SuSE with a fresh install, your extra partition will be there waiting for you. The only thing you _might_ have to worry about is if you use a journaling file system like reiserfs, ext3, jfs, etc. on your data partition and there are significant changes to the file system code between releases. In that case, you will still probably be OK, but you never know what changes are coming with the fast moving journaling file systems. Making it ext2 will always be safe since ext2 is not having features added. Best Regards, Keith -- LPIC-2, MCSE, N+ Got spam? Get spastic http://spastic.sourceforge.net
Alle 23:50, martedì 30 aprile 2002, Harry G ha scritto:
When I would set up a W$ NT box, I would always set up a different drive (D) for the apps and dta, with the OS residing on C. This way, if, or should I say when I had to reinstall toe OS, I could do it to drive C, leave D alone, and not lose my data. (Had to reinstall most programs though).
This saved a lot of time. Now, my experience with Suse has been great, especially with ext3, but my paranoia want to know if this can be done on Linux, so to speak.
Any suggestions?
To save your data, you should only do a /home partition. So when you upgrade/reformat the / you only have to set up properly /etc/fstab and your data is there, waiting for u. Praise
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