Rick Stevens: >> Referring to your original post, I don't really see a huge benefit to >> having separate / and /home partitions unless you're planning to do >> partition-based backups and restores. Back in the day when we backed up >> to tape and such with limited capacities, it made sense. Now that >> external hard drives are so prevalent and cost-effective, it doesn't >> track as well. Ian Malone: > The thing I've found it most useful for is to keep data through a new > Fedora install. Likewise... Back-up *and* restore is more time-intensive than just back-up and just use what's still there. And I like the idea of someone else's: three partitions, one for the current installation, one reserved for the next release, and one for your data (used by both). Then, when you install the *next* release, your old one is held in reserve, and used for the next release install after the newest one. Leap-frog style. I used to do that with separate drives, but since drives have become so huge these days, you can do it with partitions. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see the messages posted to the mailing list. Long ago I gave up on using Windows (TM) [Tantrum Machine], and I've never regretted it. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
