On Monday 15 Sep 2003 2:50 am, Gary Montalbine wrote:
Also IIRC Anne did a TWiki on moving her /usr directory. I was
unable to find it. Anne if you are reading this where did you put
it?
http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/Problems
Anne
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Have you
The saga continues. I have been reading my copy of the 9.1 Mandrake The
Definitive Manual or in my case the confusion manual. To review I
installed 9.2 on my second HD and got it bootable. Now I am trying to back
up certain files from my /home directory using drakbackup. The default
directory for
I have been running linux for a bout a year now and was just wondering about
my partitioning.
I am running mdk 8.1 and I have
/
/swap
/home
Partitions.
Is there any adavantage to repartitioning and putting /usr in its own
partition? I am wondering if for example I could switch to anonther
/usr stores much of the ditribution supplied stuff so will be over
written when you upgrade. However /usr/local (and /opt if you have it)
should be seperate partitions. Anything you install which is not part of
the distribution should end up in one of these. Along with /home these
might be
Reply-to address screwed up . . . mail bounced . . .
Here's what I wrote:
Why on earth would ou use a DOS environment to make the paritions? Use
fdisk or DiskDrake during the install process itself.
I'm running Linux on a hard drive that has never been touched by
Microsoft software, and
