On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Benjamin wrote:
> 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?
Yep, you answered your own question... make a home partition in Disk
Druid, same way you make root except give a mount point of "/home" instead
of "/". (Without quotes of course.) And make it whatever size you expect
to need for your home directory. :)
-Tom
