On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 14:49 -0500, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > Benjamin Smith wrote: > > > 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 > 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> Thanks for the good advice. I wondered why the installer gave those choices. Now it makes sense. All my production data resides on /data and I tend to leave the standard directories alone but I did create a /root/bin and put in it simple commands like .l # /bin/bash ls -al .f # /bin/bash find / -iwholename *$1 .fs # /bin/bash find /data -iwholename *$1 find /ax -iwholename *$1 find /bx -iwholename *$1 find /cx -iwholename *$1 Obviously with the chmod +x. The last one makes searching times much faster when seeking non-operating system files. Because I'm lazy or perhaps because I firmly believe the computer should do the work for the people not vice versa, I did some links (ln -s) for service and some copies of ipt tables etc. so I can quickly type sv ipt status ipt -I ..... ipt -nvL Command lines are like what computers used to be like. You know with a fast but noisy Teletype banging-out text at 75 baud or a luxury terminal running at a staggeringly fast 300 baud giving a top speed of 30 characters a second. -- With best regards, Paul. England, EU.