partitioning problems when trying to install Fedora Core 3

[James Knott]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 12:11:32PM -0500, James Knott wrote:
> 
>>Also, /home makes it easier to upgrade the OS, without clobbering your 
>>data or settings.
> 
> 
> How?  I know slackware in the past required reinstalling / and /usr to
> do an "upgrade", but with things like debian and redhat, and upgrade is
> just an upgrade and nothing in the installer during an upgrade should
> change /home.
> 
> More partitions just means more places for partitions to be full while
> other partitions have lots of free space.  Not a good idea for new users
> (or even experienced ones in many cases).

People often reformate partitions, when installing a new distro.  If 
/home is not on it's own partition, you have to back up the data first.

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