Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Benny Amorsen wrote: >> I haven't actually tried reinstalling. My current laptop was installed >> around FC3. > And is the reason for that because you didn't want to lose your own > work in /home? Well that is part of the reason. I also don't want to lose /etc and parts of /var, and certainly not /usr/local. On the server I really don't want to lose /srv, but that has its own partition. The only problem I have with my upgraded laptop that I wouldn't have if I reinstalled is that my file system is hopelessly fragmented. >> Anyway, I was talking about /usr and /var, not about /home. > > /var can have substantial write activity in some scenarios (busy mail > or database server, or anything with a lot of logging) and it can > improve performance to put it on a separate disk drive (not just a > separate partition) to eliminate head contention with other work. Separate disks are an entirely different issue. /Benny -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
