On Monday 08 September 2003 10:23 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. > > also, saving your mail to a fat32 partition defeats the whole purpose of > using Linux, ie. you are potentially saving mail that may contain > malicious code that the Windows partition, once booted into that > horrible OS, will do exactly what it is programmed to do, whereas on a > Linux partition it will just sit there, harmless.
ok, i understand that the /home partition doesn't need to be formatted out, just the / when doing a re-install or whatever. but i did that once already to solve some problems and i lost everything in kmail. that was a lot to lose, i was not happy. i don't want to have it happen again. i do, however, know how to go in and make partitions using diskdrake, and i could make myself another journalized fs3 partition specifically for storing mail, but after that, i don't know how to move everything over to it and keep it all there so i don't lose it again. hard drive space is not an issue for me. i've got ms-win and mdk on a 20gb hard drive (with / and /home both recieving 7gb space each) and i've got a 100gb hard drive for storage of anything and everything, and it's partitioned 6 ways currently, so carving out another partition speficially for e-mail, no problem. i prefer to do things this way anyway, as it can save a lot of data in the event of bad things happening. so can anyone help me walk through this so i don't lose all my stuff? it looks like i'm going to format out / within the next few days and start all over again. i've screwed it up pretty good. i can't even do updates. i really don't want to have to go through all this again, i've got just bout all my settings where i really like them, but hey, it's more practice on setting up the system, as i've only done it maybe 3-4 times. yeah, it's the easy way out, but i'm running on a full schedule between kids and school, so sometimes i gotta opt for the easiest quickest way to fix something. Mike
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