Benjamin wrote:
>
> 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.
>
in diskdruid just limit the / partition to lets say 3g
then create (add) a partition (linux native) that would be the rest of
the disk and make its mount point /home
currently my fstab looks like this:
/dev/hda7 /
/dev/hdb5 /ftp
/dev/hda5 /home1
/dev/sdb1 /home
/dev/hda8 /received
/dev/hda6 /root
/dev/sda5 /usr
/dev/sda1 /var
/dev/hda9 swap
as you can clearly see I have put /usr, /var, /home and /root on there
own partition.
> 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?
>
Yes,
if you put /home on lets say /dev/hda5
when you upgrade/reinstall you wont lose that data (if you do not format
it!)
> Thank you so much.
>
> Benjamin
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