Benjamin Smith wrote: <snip> > On my hard disk, I have my /home, /boot, and / directories each on their > own partitions, and when I'm upgrading my Fedora, I just format / and /boot, > and leave /home alone. Although I've transfered it a few times between hard <snip> Yep. ALWAYS have /home on its own partition. You *might* want /opt on its own, also. For more on my views on this, here's my copy of the article I had published a few years ago in SysAdmin (now defunct, unfortunately) <http://24.5-cent.us/upgrading_linux.doc> mark _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos