25 Jan
2011
25 Jan
'11
8:49 p.m.
Benjamin Smith wrote: <snip>
On my hard disk, I have my /home, /boot, and / directories each on their own partitions, and when I'm upgrading my Fedora, I just format / and
/boot,
and leave /home alone. Although I've transfered it a few times between hard
<snip> Yep. ALWAYS have /home on its own partition. You *might* want /opt on its own, also. For more on my views on this, here's my copy of the article I had published a few years ago in SysAdmin (now defunct, unfortunately) http://24.5-cent.us/upgrading_linux.doc
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