On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 12:33 +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > When you come to re-install the OS (and it is occasionally necessary), > it is vital to have at least /home and /usr/local on seperate partitions > from /, so that you can happily reformat / without worrying (too much) > about your data.
I also can restore root including /home and /usr/local from my backups. If you keep /usr/local and you install Debian by the installer, not from a backup, then the package management doesn't know about the packages that installed files to /usr/local. "Make love, not make install" and btw. the averaged user we are talking about, for sure has nothing in /usr/local. > Also, you can fill up /home, and still run the system. I would also keep > /var on a seperate partition, to guard against some errant application > filling it up. If everything is in one partition, it's very unlikely that some location gets filled up. It's more likely that this happens, if you use separated partitions. Regards, Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1347537254.2093.14.camel@localhost.localdomain
