On Wednesday 04 Dec 2002 10:14 am, Dennis & Sue wrote: > Something I've wondered about, And have yet to receive a satifying answer > for : > What is the " best" way to partition your drive, and Why ? > Why set up / , /var , / usr , / home , What's the logic, or purpose of > this ? > I've set mine up with seperate partitions for / , and /user. > I've also set partitions up / , and /home. > also, just one partition for / . > of the three ways I've done it, going / , /home seemed like the best when > it came time for a reinstall , ( reload / No need to worry about / home > everything is restored as it was before mucking up / ). > When I went / , /usr I had to format both partitions, or neither. So I > lost my / home settings.
Supplementary question: I have /home set as a separate partition and all the rest in one. I did this because it seemed to me that this would be a more 'elastic' way, in the sense that I didn't know sensible sizes for other partitions, and I figured that just doing them as directories instead of partitions would allow them to self-adjust. Was I right? Are there any serious problems with this strategy? Anne
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