On Thu, 03 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> Hey All,
>
> Most people develop a method or formula for Hard Drive Paritioning and
> the different paritions?
> My question is what do you guys do?
>
> some people do just a "/" and swap parition. The swap twice the amount
> of ram and the "/" as big as possible. There must be some disadvantages
> to this method.
>
> What is your method/technique?
>
One other thing.... in answer to your question, the reason you should
consider making a separate /home is so that when you reinstall or
upgrade (doing a full install) you won't have to lose your /home/user
partitions and any associated files therein.
John
