Re: [newbie] Oh, yeah

[Andy Goth]

> I broke my disk up in 3 partitions.  2 Gig or so for "/root",  64M for "swap", and 
>the balance (6Gig) for "/home".  This allows me to reinstall (reformat <:-0 ) the 
>/root and swap and not touch any home (user) files

What about /usr and all those other directories I am forgetting?

So, what if I install some great package and then have to reformat and
reinstall the OS?  How can I salvage that great package?