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From: Eze Ogwuma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, June 09, 1998 7:25 PM
Subject: Re: Newbe: Partition recommendations?
>I suggest at least four partitions. You should have a separate /home
>partition. This will ensure that you can protect the data in the /home
>partition during upgrades. I know that Red Hat should protect your
>system during upgrades but that's not always the way things work.
I'm curious; what is it that makes /home somehow more secure if it happens
to point to a different partition instead of just a different directory?
Either way, it's still /home.
As long as you've got a bootable floppy with fsck on it, I see no reason to
have more than two partitions:
swap, and /.
Some people recommend swap, / and /usr, but if you do that you have to be
aware of where other things end up, such as /home, and it's a pain to mess
around in the middle of install with symlinking /var and /home to /usr/var
and /usr/home. The average newbie doesn't need to be doing this.
I'm running at home like this:
hda contains swap and /boot.
hdc contains /.
It's working peachy keen, and I didn't have to symlink anything.
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