Michael, et al: Just a tidbit of info (as in - suggestion), that I follow all the time. When installing Mandrake (for a workstation or stand-alone PC), on a large drive, I'd like to suggest that you break your "/home" partition into 2 partitions. Typically, DiskDrake will setup 3 partitions (ie; / , swap, and /home), but I suggest a fourth partition which can be used as an archive (read as storage) partition. I use it for ALL downloads, documents, RPM updates, and extra programs (ie; Gnapster, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Newer Mozilla builds, Java Runtime Environments, and Openoffice). That way, even if I decide to wipe the other three partitions and do a full install, all my extra programs and packages are still intact and ready to be re-installed. Then it's just a matter of telling my word-processor where to find "My Documents" on the /archive partition, and putting a shortcut on the desktop for everything I regularly use. As a matter of fact, once your desktop is fully configured the way you want it, you can also copy your /home/user folder over to the /archive partition as a backup copy.
Whenever Mandrake releases a new version, I like to erase everything in /home as well as "/, and swap partitions, and start fresh. But by saving the important stuff on the "/archive" partition, I save a lot of download time. Then all that I need to do is to update the files every once in a while. It also speeds up Mandrake Update since the RPM's , and description list is already on the hard drive. Just my 25 cents ! Lanman On Wednesday 28 November 2001 09:21 am, you wrote: > do a 'df -h' which will tell you how large each partition is, how much > you've used, how much is available for use, and what percent of the > partition is being used. If any % is higher than about 75-80%, it's > usually time to take a look to see where you can free up some room. > > Michael
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