Yes, Ram is right. I suggested otherwise in a thread because I wanted that particular user to keep it simple, and in my case it's becasue I sync my system with my external hard disk almost thrice a day sometimes.
/home is good. I would say +1 :) On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Ramnarayan.K <[email protected]>wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Shashi Bhushan <[email protected]> > wrote: > > thank you very much sir > > my problem solved. > > but does it worked with ubuntu 9.10, I am scared if it not worked then I > > have to reinstall ubuntu9.04 again. and it will formatt my whole drive. > > :-) all the advise i gave you was for 9.10 so sure it will work. > > and am quite happy that you are able to connect to the net via Ubuntu. > Now you can enjoy real freedom. > > *** > regarding having to reformat > > my suggestion to all Linux newcomers make sure you partition your hard > disk to have a separate /home - this will mean you never have to worry > about your data being lost in a reinstall or new install > > My typical partition scheme looks like this > > /dev/sda1: ="IBM_PRELOAD" TYPE="ntfs" 15 GB > /dev/sda2: = SHARED "ntfs" 20 GB > /dev/sda4: = ext4 Boot 100 MB > /dev/sda6: LABEL=Swap" 4 GB > /dev/sda7: = ext4 /(or root) 15 GB > /dev/sda8 = ext 4 /home - 100 GB > > As you can see the last partition is /home where i keep my data i have > never had to reinstall / reformat this partition and the only time i > had to do so was when shifting from ext3 to ext 4 for which i backed > my home up in an external drive (normal procedure to be followed for > safe data keeping) and then changed to ext4 and voila back to normal. > > ram > > /dev/sda9: UUID="5333b440-117c-482d-9033-d6533ca45710" TYPE="ext4" > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in > -- Amarendra Kumar Final Year Undergraduate Dept. of IT, NIT Patna http://amarendra.web.officelive.com
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