partitioning problems when trying to install Fedora Core 3
James Knott
james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Thu Feb 3 21:11:12 UTC 2005
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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