On Monday 08 September 2003 07:39 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Monday 08 Sep 2003 11:23 am, HaywireMac wrote: > > On Sun, 7 Sep 2003 16:44:01 +0000 > > > > crak600 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > > well, currently all my mail is saved onto my /home partition, but > > > every other document/file/picture/whatever i get e-mailed to me > > > that i want to save, i save it to my other hard drive, which is > > > all FAT32. i actually do want to figure out how to make KMail > > > save all my e-mail on one of those FAT32 partitions, so if i have > > > to wipe out MDK for whatever reason (or screw it up and wipe it > > > all out) > > > > if/when you ever had to reinstall Mandrake, you don't have to > > format your /home partition, in fact there's no reason to at all. > > Problem is that the default installation puts everything in one big > partition. I'd like that changed, with a separate /home partition > being the default. I think there's a wish list for 9.3 somewhere - I > wonder where?
Not so if the partitions are already created. If you already have separate /var /root /home /usr, etc partitions, it defaults to reusing the ones you have. So, on a reinstall, it would not wipe the existing partitions but would simply reuse the ones you already have in place, formatting only / and /usr by default. /var /home and other partitions will not be formatted unless you choose to do so. I have reinstalled several times and that is what happens everytime I do it. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer
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