Carlos E. R. wrote: > > El 2007-04-29 a las 19:44 -0400, James Knott escribió: > > > Carlos E. R. wrote: > >> The Sunday 2007-04-29 at 18:44 -0400, James Knott wrote: > >> > >>> What I do, is create a /home/local directory and then create > >>> /home/local/user etc., with symlinks from /usr/local. > >> Why? > >> > > So that all of "my" stuff is on one partition that does not get > > formatted during an OS install. This means, for example, that if I > > create a script in /usr/local, I can safely reformat the partition that > > contains /usr, because /usr/local is on another partition. > > Yes, of course, I use /usr/local in a separate partition (same as > /home is > another partition), but I don't see the utility of /home/local :-? > So that there's only one partition that has to be protected. In my main system, it's an entirely separate drive.
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