Although I now have /home on a separate partition, I previously upgraded
from 6.0 to 6.1 when I had just one big / partition (and, of course, a swap
partition). /home was retained with no problems whatsoever.
--On Monday, November 01, 1999, 10:59 PM -0500 John Aldrich
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 01 Nov 1999, you wrote:
>> And the problem with that is? All my Linux partitions lie within and
>> extended partition, which has caused absolutely no problem with SuSE 6.2,
>> or Mandrake 6.0/6.1. Furthermore MDK 6.1 is an upgrade, as opposed to a
>> fresh install.
>>
> If you wish to save your /home directory, you HAVE to have it in a
> separate partition when formatting "/" otherwise, it's toast. At
> least that's what I've always understood. What I'm saying is / and
> /home need to be two separate partitions, NOT that one needs to be a
> primary partition and the other an extended partition, although you
> WILL need to have a bootable primary partition, I think.
> John
/b
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