Re: [newbie] Partitioning (was Installing Mandrake)

2003-10-16 Thread Weston R
What are the advantages of having something other than just / and swap? For example... /, /home, and swap I use my computer as a desktop system only and have used a few different distrobutions before but am currently installing mandrake 9.2John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Welcome to

Re: [newbie] Partitioning (was Installing Mandrake)

2003-10-16 Thread John Richard Smith
well , /home partition will give you a partition set aside for each individual user's private files and configuration files and means that provided you don't do anything silly like formatting them when updating your system the /home directory will be left alone, and you will find all