[inbox] Re: c'est rien

[Greg Neumann]

Bob,
If you mess around with your system much, be sure to put your /home 
directory on a separate disk partition, and put your crucial data files 
there. That way when (not if! ;-)) you blow the system up again, you can 
bypass formating that partition, set it back to home, bring up gnucash 
in your new system and as they say, "Bob's your uncle!" ... oh wait, you 
ARE Bob! ;-) (sorry!)
Anyway, that recently saved my butt when I slapped a third drive in my 
machine and tried to set up SuSE 9.1 on it and grub would not boot 
anything! I eventually used the Slackware 10.0 setup CD, fixed it so the 
Slackware drive would boot, and lo! there was all my data in the 
partition I left it on. I really do like all the Linux distros that ASK 
you if you want to format a partition and if and where you want it mounted.
At some point, long ago, someone far more savvy about these things than 
I recommended that I put /home on a separate partition, even drive if 
possible, and I'm sure glad I've been doing it since. Hope this helps.
-Greg Neumann

Advent Systems wrote:
> Steve,
>    I save all my mail but this I think I will make into a wallpaper for 
> my desktop!  Being a newbie I mostly lurk on this list and try to learn 
> but most of the people here are working on such seriously advanced stuff 
> I feel almost like an idiot asking about a stupid cd burner problem (but 
> am grateful for how much I have learned from them) .  I think I see 
> now,and agree, that  setting up and "fixing" problems in linux is half 
> the fun.  I just need to setup one machine to do my "real work" with and 
> don't screw with it.  What used to frustrate me (before your letter) :)  
> was that on a typical day I'd get my  books setup on gnucash , I'd then 
> blow the system up trying something new and then I'd have to enter 
> invoices!
> 
> Thanks Again,
> Bob Randal