swap
/boot
/
Last August there was an exchange of views on this list about how many and what types of partitions to have. Micah Cowan took a position even more minimalist than RedHat. For a home system he recommends only swap and /. My general question is what are the reasons for having more partitions?
I have some more specific questions based on the three scenarios below. For each scenario assume that I have RedHat 6.1 installed and that I have a /home partition and a /usr/local partition and that my programs such as Star Office are in /usr/local.
Scenario 1: I misuse rm -r and decide that I have to re-install RedHat 6.1.
Scenario 2: I decide to install (not upgrade to) RedHat 7.0 over RedHat 6.1.
Scenario 3: I decide to install Suse over RedHat 6.1.
Now is the advantage in having separate partitions that in each of these scenarios I can install over RedHat 6.1 without wiping out my files in /home and my application programs in /usr/local? I know that if everything is under /, a re-installation will wipe out all of my programs and files. So is this the main point in having separate partitions?
Is what I am suggesting true? Would it be possible to install Suse over RedHat and expect my programs to run as usual?
Thank you.
Bob
-- Robert G. Scofield [EMAIL PROTECTED]
