On Wednesday 14 January 2009 03:55:52 Vishal Sheth wrote: > Either it should sync back everything from pc/MAC. OR if formatted > then only the os is reformatted. the data remains in place. This is > possible in MAC OS.
That's an interesting point I hadn't thought of. I wonder whether Palm has. In Linux, it is good practice to put the OS and applications on one partition, and /home, or the user files, on another. All of your data could be on /dev/sda5, while your OS is on /dev/sda1, and your settings (the dot files) are on /dev/sda2. You could choose to restore sda1 or sda2 while keeping sda5. Normally the dot files are in your $HOME directory, but I suppose it wouldn't be a big deal to put them elsewhere. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
