On Tuesday 25 February 2003 08:24 am, John Anderson wrote:
> I am relatively new to Linux, been running Mandrake 9.0 for
> about a fortnight, and after lots of reading I have decided
> to move to Debian.
If you have enough space (which you do with 80 gb) it is a
good idea to reserve a group or partitions for a re-install.
What I have is :
/ 250 mb
/var 1g
/usr 5g
that is unique to an installation.
Others (/tmp, /home) are shared between installations.
Then I have another /, /var, /usr for another installation.
By doing this, I am able to do a complete reinstall while
keeping the old one. This gives a fallback if the new one
doesn't work correctly, and you keep your old config info.
When I first installed Debian, the fallback was Mandrake.
It is also handy if you are running an "unstable" system.
Keep one before a "dist-upgrade" for when something gets
removed or doesn't work.
On my main machine, I have 2 drives, with 4 boot
configurations. There is a duplicate /home on the other drive
that I use for backup (with rsync).
If you are setting up from scratch .. I have found that
reiserfs works better on big partitions, and ext3 works better
on small ones. If you are measuring in gigs, that is big. On
a 20 gig partition, I get about a 4:1 performance improvement
with reiser. I don't know about the other filesystems such as
jfs.
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