debian renovation

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 12:31:38AM -0400, David J Patrick wrote:
> >"apt-get install kde" might do it all but if you're using unstable you can 
> >never trust that there are no conflicts.
> >
> Damn ! I can't have my cake and eat it too ? I gotta learn MORE ? whew !

You can, but don't expect it to always taste as good as you hoped, but
most of the time it will. :)

> I have /home on a separate partition and have a partition I was goung to 
> use for /usr, I could also separate /var and /etc, would you reccomend 
> this ? What files system(s) would you reccomend ? ext3 ? xfs ? reiser3 ?
>    and I'm 90% backed up .. (he slinks off and fires up k3b) .. thanks,

Don't make /etc seperate.  /etc/fstab is rather important for mounting
anything other than /

Besides given /etc should not contain anything but config files (no
data, no binaries, etc), it should be very small.

Lennart Sorensen
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