> You will notice the benefit to separate /home /opt and /etc directories when > you upgrade to Mandrake 9.0. Performing an 'upgrade' to a distro is still not
Agreed, especially in the case of /home. When I last did a fairly major upgrade, /home was on a 150 meg partition sitting on a old drive that I just pulled from the system when I upgraded to a new hard driev. Having home separate was easy - I just tared up the old partition and transplanted it into a bigger space. I don't see how /etc can be on a separate partition, but still, tarring up /etc is pretty easy to do - I've done it a few times during upgrades or reinstalls. My biggest changeover was from a 1.6 gig drive with Redhat 6.2 to Mandrake 7.2 on a 30 gig drive. I had plenty of space, so I made / rather large, but still had separate partitions for /usr/local, /home, /var, and oene or more others. I've had enough space *someplace* (I can usually throw stuff in /tmp, and / is large) to make moving partitions around, which I've had to do a few times. Underestimating one's needs usually causes one to have to resize :( -- in that respect, having a large / is good. Typically, a large / also gives you enough room in /usr, where all the 'goodies' are, and there seems to be fewer instances of a partitino split between / and /usr. But that's probably subjective. One point about /opt -- I figured originally I was going to need more room for 'extras' and found that it was mostly wasted: I didn't need 5 gigs of space for KDE and star office and maybe some other stuff - so I just folded /opt back into /, and used the space elsewhere. > derek
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