[inbox] Re: c'est rien

[Advent Systems]

Greg,
    For years now (before linux and I was blowing up my windows systems) 
:) I do keep my data on a separate HD that I split in two.  1/2 is linux 
data the other 1/2 is fat32 (I dual boot with win2k) and this has saved 
me from suicide :)  many, many, many .......times.  I know the value of 
this,  but since I keep no critical data in my home directory  is there 
any advantage to keeping that  directory on a separate  partition? 

Thanks,
Bob Randal

Greg Neumann wrote:

> 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
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