MJang wrote: > > One thing I do to deal with the upgrade cycle is have a separate > partition for my /home directory.
Oh, yes. In fact, the old-timers on this list will remember the early days of Unix, you know, when they had manuals and one was required to read them, that multiple filesystems was the norm. It was probably more because of the relative unreliability of drives at the time, one could lose a drive and not lose the entire environment. > It re-emphasized the importance of regular backups for me. It was for me a crude backup system, though I did find that some configurations were better left off the new install so I would instead rename my directory, install and then migrate back the irreplaceable things like email. Now I use backuppc to a dedicated drive and wouldn't mind losing the home directory. At most I would lose a day's worth of email threads. Larry _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug