Dexter Graphic wrote: > I assume there is also a SWAP but you're leaving it out for clarity?
Yes. One swap partition on every disk. If multiple linuces are installed, they all use the same swap. > What good does /boot do? And I assume /disk is just all of your data, > kind of like home? /boot is obsolete. Don't worry about it. (It used to be that the kernel had to be within the 8 Mb of the disk for lilo to find it, but lilo has been upgraded, and all the major distributions have been shipping the upgraded lilo for a while.) > It's hard for me to believe that you could switch distros and still > have all of your user settings, menu customizations, program settings, > and application data work just by restoring your /home directory? No, not everything works. But it's a lot closer to working than if you have to start from scratch. Since I'm an old-school user, I have a lot of text config files, whose format doesn't change (much). For example, .cshrc, .emacs, .muttrc. I also have a lot of personal commands in my ~/bin directory. If, for example, I don't have psgrep, nmgrep, m, cx, or catdot in my path, my productivity drops. And since those are all shell or perl scripts, yes, they pretty much just work on different systems. -- Bob Miller K<bob> kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
