Shawn McMahon wrote:
From: Eze Ogwuma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[...]
> >I suggest at least four partitions. You should have a separate /home
> >partition. This will ensure that you can protect the data in the /home
> >partition during upgrades. I know that Red Hat should protect your
> >system during upgrades but that's not always the way things work.
>
> I'm curious; what is it that makes /home somehow more secure if it happens
> to point to a different partition instead of just a different directory?
>
> Either way, it's still /home.
If something happens to your / partition then at least your files in
/home will be safe. The / partition table does get corrupted under
certain circumstances. I lost my / and /usr partitions while upgrading
from RH 4.2 to RH 5.0. As I had separate partitions for my none RPM
files my loss was not substantial.
Eric L. Green wrote:
> Most people don't plan to wipe out their root partition, but, as the
> saying goes, **it happens.
This is why I suggested a /home partition but I really think that a
/usr/local partition would be an advantage even for a newbie.
If he decides on the number of partitions he wants then people on the
list could help him decide on the size of these partitions. In fact the
best thing for him to do may be to do something like this and forget the
separate root partition:
/home 75-150 (max 250) MB
swap max 128 MB
/usr/local 300 MB
/ 850-1000 MB
The rest of the space would be unallocated so that he could partition it
up later.
Shawn McMahon wrote:
> As long as you've got a bootable floppy with fsck on it, I see no reason to have
>more than two partitions:
> swap, and /.
>
> Some people recommend swap, / and /usr, but if you do that you have to be
> aware of where other things end up, such as /home, and it's a pain to mess
> around in the middle of install with symlinking /var and /home to /usr/var and
>/usr/home.
You don't have to symlink anything if you place things on separate
partitions. Why would you link /var to /usr/var or /home to /usr/home?
[...]
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Eze Ogwuma
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