[QCLUG] Directories as partitions

[John Brun]

Like was mentioned earlier.  I have my /home directory on a different
partition so that when I re-intstall (I do clean installs on upgrades )
i don't loose any of my data.  So far, that has worked out. 

John

ps.  I have also (occasionally) tried to install something that I
shouldn't and ended up with a system that needed help.  Having the /home
as a different directory was a god sent.




Arron Lorenz wrote:
> I not a big fan of having a single point of failure. Gentoo is running
> on an older drive mounted as "/". the newer drive actually houses my
> data. File music/video share is in /home, etc has most conf files, and
> really the only thing i have var on the other drive for is for the web
> server data. Long story short if i have any issues. Probably overkill
> but hey it gets the job done.
>
> On 7/18/07, *Jim Hall* <volunteer.jim@gmail.com
> <mailto:volunteer.jim@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 7/18/07, *Arron Lorenz* <arronlorenz@gmail.com
>     <mailto:arronlorenz@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         Just to throw my hat into the ring the default install for a
>         distro like Ubuntu everything is put into the root "/"
>         partition. Which is fine for most desktop installs. I have my
>         /home on a separate drive so when I reinstall, or upgrade i
>         have all my home files on it's own drive. Although on my home
>         server I have "/" on one drive, /home, /etc and /var on
>         another drive.
>
>
>     OK. What's your reason for putting those directories on a
>     different drive?
>
>     Jim
>
>
>
>
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> Arron James Lorenz
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