Bill Crompton wrote: > hello all, > thanks for the advice. > yes it allows to skip /home from formatting but it wont proceed until > i format / (root) partition as well. > and i chose ext2 because Mandriva by default issues this > filesystem.can i change their type now?i have 2 partitions,/,/usr and > swap. > > please confirm me is there any difference in windows formatting and > linux formatting.as <http://formatting.as> it is commonly adviced to > not to format frequently (at least in windows) as it damages the > disk.in <http://disk.in> other words any linux equivalent to "format > \q" where actual format isnt done but just data is erased > completely,aka quick format. > > bill > > -- > bill crompton For the formatting, you really should format the / and the /usr partitions when you reinstall. I recommand that you create a partition for /home so you don't lose your data. On my system, I have /, /home, /var partitions... /var because web pages, mail, databases and other things are stored there
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