On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 10:28 +0200, Jerome R. Westrick wrote:
On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 04:37, C Hamel wrote:
On 21:52 Thu 28 Oct , James Knott wrote:
Backup the directory, then next time you install, create a /home partition.
Okay, People...
I'm almost scared to ask 'cuase it seams like a holy grail type thing with you guys, but.....
In the old days (before linux had decent file systems) you made separate partitions incase one of the other partions got trashed, it would not trash your data... (Note that it was usually the system partiions that got trashed...)
Now-a-days the file systems don't get trashed right?
Therefore the reason for having seperate partiitons has disappeared?
Or am I missing something?
Well, it is very useful to have a separate /home partition for future upgrades - you don't need to move all your data before installation and formatting / I move /home/der to /home/der.old then move across the stuff I want to the new /home/der directory - all my personal files, plus .mozilla or .pan, and so on. Whether you have other separate partitions depends on your preferences and needs - in a server environment, for example, you might want /var separate, because that's where your mail and your logs are. Apt keeps all its rpms in /var/cache/apt/archives, and you might want to keep those. Filesystems do still get trashed - SuSE 9.0, for example - which wasn't all that long ago - shipped with a kernel that had buggy reiserfs support. I couldn't even begin to give you the technical low-down on it, but I had the system freeze shortly after initial installation of 9.0 and had to just power down. On re-booting, my / partition was shot to bits and I had to start again. Fortunately, /home was on a separate partition............ Even with 9.1 I still get occasional freezes and whilst journalling has made recovery much easier, data still gets lost sometimes. David -- Registered Linux User No 207521 The Linux Counter: http://counter.li.org/ "The above is my personal opinion and does not necessarily reflect that of the little voices in my head."