[inbox] Re: c'est rien

[Greg Neumann]

/home/<username> is used by the system and various apps to store all 
kinds of config files. Is that perhaps why gnucash lost your invoices? 
You certainly have the right idea about critical data. I find that 
something important usually gets hosed really good on the day after the 
Win2000 server backup bails out w/ some stupid error, so I've taken to 
hiding the REALLY important stuff on local drives, etc. Just in case. 
Having worked w/ both W2K and Linux as small business servers, I must 
say I MISS Linux. The only thing on the W2K server that has been 
absolutely fail-safe is the licensing monitoring module. No surprise 
there, I guess. ;-)
Anyway, you might just set up a small /home/<your_username> partition on 
that data drive to keep the config files from blow-up to blow-up. ;-)
-Greg Neumann

Advent Systems wrote:
> 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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