On Saturday 22 January 2005 10:32 am, Julie Sloan wrote: > > If /home's not on a separate partition now, and you > > have enough diskspace on a storage partition, just copy your > > entire /home directory to that partition. Then copy it back > > in after a re-install of 10.0, overwriting the install /home. > > This probly isn't practically feasible if your storage area > > is any type of Windoze file system. It's possible, but much > > more complicated. > > > > I copied /home to a CD, will reinstall 10.0, and hopefully > during the reinstall will set up a storage partition or two. > I'm dualbooting WinXP and Mandrake; have the Win on the > original harddrive and Mandrake on its own, separate, hd. I > can "see" into windoze from Mandrake but cannot write to it. > > thanks, > Julie
Actually you seem to have alot'a snap for a newbie. In the re-install, make a separate /home dir this time ;) Also, IME, one real big /stor dir is better than many. CD backup of /home was a good idea on your part. This advice comin from an old idiot with 4 /stor[1,2,3,4] partitions spanning 3 PATA/SATA mix of drives with a total of 280gig. As to 'see' into Win$ux, that why I left it at 'complicated'. M$ ntfs FS's (and there are several versions), can be read by Linux, but write support is (intentionally by M$) dangerous and not supported. I'm not even sure if a tarball stored on ntfs can be transferred to Linux. Maybe someone here with actual experience can comment. I haven't used anything M$ in years. BTW, when you re-install I recommend ReiserFS. And make a separate /boot partition (~50mb's, ext3). Ratio of '/' to '/home' will depend on how much total space you have, but IME, 8gig for '/' and 12gig for /home is plenty ... specially if you set aside storage space. For small Linux 'only' drives (<13gig), I believe putting everything one big 'ol '/' partition, with a suitable /swap partition is best use. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Proud to be an American
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