On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Martin Sprenger wrote:
> Hi *!*@*.*
> IIRC Mandrake 7.0 creates four different partitions when you click on auto
> allocate /, /boot, /home and swap
> 7.1 auto allocates only /, /home and swap (which is sometimes bigger than
> 128 MB - I read somewhere that this is the limit for swap partition).
> What's the advantage of having different partitions when the all end up
> being mounted in the same directory tree? I'm not sure how much space I
> might need for / or /home and making one bigger than needed seems to be a
> waiste of disk space for me...
by keeping /home on a separate partition, you are able to do an easy install
of the next version of mandrake without loss of users' files...reuse the same
partition as /home (do not reformat it) on the new install...saving all
users' files can be done a number of ways, but this way is simple...
frank
