What is the consensus on the best partition scheme and size?/Keeping home separate
Tim
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Sun Oct 29 06:53:45 UTC 2006
Tim:
>> They didn't "format" the drive, but they did remove the files before the
>> installation. That gives you a "clean install".
Jeff Vian:
> That seems like it would be (almost) the same as a clean install.
> However, it is still much harder than having /home on a separate
> partition and then just letting the installer format the entire /
> filesystem (along with whatever other partitions you are using for the
> OS).
I don't disagree. I'd rather use partitions, myself. But if one were
faced with updating/re-installing a system without partitions, and
without the ability to backup data (another bad position to be in),
that'd be a way to go about doing it.
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