Dear friends:
I will be reinstalling my Mandrake 6.1 from CD in a day or two. I would
appreciate advice on how to make a /home partition.
[Specs: AMD K6-2 400 Mhrtz, 128 megs of RAM]
Currently, I have an all-Linux system consisting of two hard drives: hda
(4.3 gig) for the Linux system and hdb for my storage needs (3.2 gig).
Both drives are Linux native ext2 drives. Plus a swap drive of 128 meg.
Obviously, I do not want to do anything with my hdb drive.
So, the question is how to partition my main hda 4.3 drive? I have up
until now been partitioning my hda using DiskDruid by simply letting the
entire hda become my / directory (by selecting hda1, "1" and "growing"
from the Disk Druid partition options (while hdb is my /bs directory).
The problem, of course, is that each time I reinstalled Red Hat or, now
Mandrake, I lost my /home/sher directory and everything in it.
If I could separate my /home/sher from my regular Linux installation,
would that allow me in the future to install, upgrade or reinstall
Mandrake and keep my /home/sher directory separate and intact? If so,
could someone suggest specifically how to go about doing it. I am sure
it's simple, but I want to make sure I am doing the right thing. Should
I have not two (hda1 and swap file) but three partitions on hda (hda1,
/home and swap)? If so, how do I do the math here. Just what do I need
to do?
Thank you so much.
Benjamin
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