On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Benjamin wrote:
If I could separate my /home/sher from my regular Linux installation,
would that allow me in the future to install, upgrade or reinstall
Mandrake and keep my /home/sher directory separate and intact? If so,
could someone suggest specifically how to go
On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Benjamin wrote:
Dear Ken:
Thanks so much for your explanation.
Question: if I assign 3 gig to / , how much PRECISELY do I assign to
/home (being the only user on a single machine), that is, do I assign
the full 1.3 gig that is left over from my 4.3 gig HD or do I
! (256mb
swap)
It will not hurt to set swap to 128 and then /home to like 1gb
Regards,
Ron
Benjamin [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 11/23/99 02:23:27 AM
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Subject: Re: [newbie] /home partition -- how
Dear friends:
My thanks to everyone who wrote in with suggestions on how to create a
/home partition. I think I am now ready to do it, as soon as I get my
PowerPack tomorrow.
Thanks again.
Benjamin
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On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, you wrote:
I would usually figure out how much space I'll want for /home, subtract
that and 128MB from my total HD space, and put the result into root, then
make the 128MB swap, then make the /home partition with the rest of the
space (which will of course be around what
On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, John Aldrich wrote:
I recently got "bitten" by not having enough space for
/home. I had an old 850 meg IDE lying around so I made that
/boot and /. Included in / is /home. I ran out of space
after downloading too many News binaries! ;-)
John
Heheh, me too--I
Dear friends:
I will be reinstalling my Mandrake 6.1 from CD in a day or two. I would
appreciate advice on how to make a /home partition.
[Specs: AMD K6-2 400 Mhrtz, 128 megs of RAM]
Currently, I have an all-Linux system consisting of two hard drives: hda
(4.3 gig) for the Linux system and hdb
I usually run two distrobutions on a 8.4 meg hd. An even split gives 2.5
gig to / 1.5 gig to /home and the balance in swap. When you reinstall
or upgrade you only have to worry about /
Benjamin wrote:
Dear friends:
I will be reinstalling my Mandrake 6.1 from CD in a day or two. I would
Benjamin wrote:
Dear friends:
I will be reinstalling my Mandrake 6.1 from CD in a day or two. I would
appreciate advice on how to make a /home partition.
[Specs: AMD K6-2 400 Mhrtz, 128 megs of RAM]
Currently, I have an all-Linux system consisting of two hard drives: hda
(4.3 gig)
