On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 09:40 -0400, Kamil Paral wrote: > > It means if you're doing a fresh install, you've got to format > > wherever > > / is going. You can't install over top of an existing /. Is that > > what > > you thought it meant? > > > > - Chris > > I imagine this could be very inconvenient for me when switching > distributions. I always have / and /home on the same partition. If I > want hypothetically to go from let's say Ubuntu to Fedora, I delete > all files except /home and then select that partition for /. If you > force me to format that partition then I can't easily switch to > Fedora, because my /home is huge and I have no external space to back > it up. Why not have /home as a separate partition? This is the classic reason for doing so. I mean, what you're doing in the above is basically 'faking' a /home partition. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
