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From: "Ravindra Jaju" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Since he has a complete HDD for the purpose, it's a good idea to suggest
> that /home should be on a separate partition, right?
>
> I strongly suggest that. Makes upgrades safer, and re-installation
> painless (no backups necessary).
i definitely agree. but he seemed like a newbie, and dosent look like he's
gonna power use his system or upgrade frequently. hence i suggested that he
go for just 2 basic partitions and make life easy !! :-)
Cheerio,
Sagar.
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