On Monday 08 Sep 2003 1:29 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: > On Monday 08 September 2003 07:39 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > 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.
It works well if you know that you need to do it, but if you're there for the first time you don't find out until it's too late. I made that mistake the first time installed, learned my lesson <g> Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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