/usr stores much of the ditribution supplied stuff so will be over written when you upgrade. However /usr/local (and /opt if you have it) should be seperate partitions. Anything you install which is not part of the distribution should end up in one of these. Along with /home these might be worth saving. Also they may not - since executables in there may become useless if the libraries they use are changed in the upgrade.
Nick. Luke Vandervort wrote: >I have been running linux for a bout a year now and was just wondering about >my partitioning. > >I am running mdk 8.1 and I have > >/ >/swap >/home > >Partitions. > >Is there any adavantage to repartitioning and putting /usr in its own >partition? I am wondering if for example I could switch to anonther version >of linux without reinstalling all my progs if I leave the /usr and /home as >is on the new install without formatting them?? Or am I missing something? >
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