On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 06:14:50PM +0100, Terje J. Hanssen wrote: > >The idea is that first time users get a /home partition. The advatage of a > >/home partition is that if you do a new installation with 10.2 or later, > >your home partition will not be removed. > > > > Maybe, maybe not. Next time at a 10.2 New installation (not Upgrade), > won't Yast try to do the same, delete and split the last partition also > then? As long as the last partition also is reformatted, everything on > that partition will be wiped out.
Good point. Is there a way that you can analyze the mountpoints and recognize an existing (SUSE) /home partition so it can us that, although that will bring a LOT of other problems. > I still think it was better as previously, that Yast asked where to > install the new Linux distro or version, when it discovered previous > installed root (Reiser) file systems. Ok. So it was more about the partitioning thing then about the /home thing. Even if there would be one partion, the same thing would apply. It si more about the deleting then the splitting. > To mentione, I keep my important user data on a FAT file system for > common access (e.g. my Mozilla mail box) regardless of Linux distro or > Win2k booted. No Windows for me. houghi -- Political T.V. commercials prove one thing: some candidates can tell all their good points and qualifications in just 30 seconds. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
