On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 23:11 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote: > On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 16:29 -1000, Edward Haddock wrote: > > Pardon the newbie excitement but I have successfully mapped a > > half-height external USB Hard Drive as my /home and after copying /home > > in FC4 to it then booting into FC5 and mapping /home to it...presto > > bango...I am now running FC5 no worries. I did lose a few things in the > > transfer but not much. Which is quite an accomplishment for a newbie > > like myself. Matter of fact, on a back burner, I may start writing about > > this. I think that given the popularity I am seeing it may be wise to > > tell people about this kind of thing so that upgrades go easier. Plus it > > puts your data on a different partition. Anyone got any advice on what > > else should be separated like that? > > Excellent, Edward! It's always a good idea to do backups of important > material like /home before upgrading or re-installing. The nice thing > about a modern operating system like Linux is that, generally, a disk is > a disk is a disk... Whether /home is on a USB hard disk, a thumb drive, > or a network share, it's all the same to Linux. > > You've hit on what is simultaneously one of the most useful, yet hardest > to document, facets of system setup -- disk partitioning. People use > separate partitions for a number of reasons, and sometimes a single > system will have easily a dozen or more partitions. Some people do well > taking the defaults in anaconda, and for some it means they're in for > massive rebuilding when they realize the implications. > > As an example, one of my lighter-use general servers at work uses: > > / > /usr > /home > /boot > /var > /var/www > /var/ftp > /var/lib/mysql > /var/svn > swap > > I've almost always used a separate /home, because I was lucky enough to > start using Linux when a Solaris-savvy friend worked next door. That we > don't push a separate /home in the installer is due to many issues, > chief among them being that when we start trying to anticipate users' > needs with so many possible choices, we invariably end up helping some > and annoying others. > > We've thrown around the idea of a System Planning Guide, which would go > hand-in-hand with the Installation Guide, and talk about some of these > very basic UNIXish issues in a way that beginners could understand. It > helps, when going through the Installation Guide, to know how to make > the right choices when the installer gives you options. > > I hope that you will be able to stay on track with the account setup > documentation, but it also makes great sense for someone with fresh eyes > to help us tackle this System Planning Guide as ewll. Aloha Paul, I actually got a little more worked out on it last night. It is a slow but steady process with me. I am hoping to get something intelligible together by mid-may and then we can start going over it. A System Planning Guide sounds like an awesome idea. Perhaps after we get the Documentation Guide on it's feet it would be a great project to participate in. Mahalo Ed > > -- > > fedora-docs-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-docs-list
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