2009/2/26 Gauland, Michael wrote: > First Question: What’s the current ‘best practice’, partition-wise, for a > new GNU/Linux install?
Definitely put /home in its own partition. *And* when you create the user accounts, write down in your diary what user number is associated with each user name, eg on my system "yuri" is user 1000 and "julia" is user 1001. When you re-install for whatever reason (eg distro change) make sure you assign the same numbers when you re-create the user accounts. Also, whenever you re-install, you will be given the option to manually partition. Do this and make sure you *de-select* the option to format the /home partition. My /home partition has survived about half a dozen distro changes. Yuri
