List,
The last two posts are exactly why I partitioned my system as one single
partition.
- I never though about moving the /home partition to another drive. This is
good reasoning.
- Also never thought of putting /etc on another partition. Once again good
reasoning. I hate losing all my custome settings.
One last thing - once you have re-installed SUSE, how do you get it to see
the old /home and /etc drives in place of the newly created ones - is this
handled during server setup when the partitioning options are made
avaliable (in custom partitioning mode) or is it handled manually after the
install is complete?
Cheers,
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Jonathan Hughes
Technical Support Specialist
Goodyear South Africa
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MCSE / MCP
Registered Linux User # 362669
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Terence McCarthy
The ONLY modification I would recommend to the Yast standard is optionally breaking out /home into a separate partition. That way you can do a clean install and never touch your own private home directories.
Not strictly necessary, but often nice to have.
Similarly, I usually copy /etc- there are often cjanges to config files that one would wish to carry forward. Terence -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com