<quote> That will happen only if your home directory is in the same partition as the root. It is always advisable to have /home in a separate partition so that the OS can be re-installed without affecting your data. </quote> what about all the different programs that i have installed, that will go right? I have done a lot of customization to the root user.
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 9:41 PM, David Shar <[email protected]> wrote: > That is correct. > > On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 11:47 PM, V. Sasi Kumar <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Sat, 2009-10-10 at 19:06 +0800, David Shar wrote: >> > Live cd will erase the data. >> >> That will happen only if your home directory is in the same partition as >> the root. It is always advisable to have /home in a separate partition >> so that the OS can be re-installed without affecting your data. >> >> Best >> -- >> V. Sasi Kumar >> Free Sofware Foundation of India >> http://swatantryam.blogspot.com >> >> >> > > > > > -- Miles to go before I Sleep --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
