On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, you wrote: > > 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? just copy the package to a partition you aren't going to format. You can copy it back later. -- Lloyd Osten [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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