Re: I did it!

[Sam Folk-Williams <sfolkwil redhat com>]

On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 04:29:55PM -1000, Edward Haddock wrote:
> Aloha,
> 	Pardon the newbie excitement but I have successfully mapped a
> half-height external USB Hard Drive as my /home and after copying /home
> in FC4 to it then booting into FC5 and mapping /home to it...presto
> bango...I am now running FC5 no worries. I did lose a few things in the

Edward,

What you did here is super cool and helpful, but do keep in ming that caviat
that USB hard drives (and thumbdrives) are prone to data corruption and you
should definitely keep a copy on your internal drive as well (or some other
backup). I'm not sure about the state of USB drivers in FC5, but previously
there have been issues with usb disks failing at a higher rate than internal
disks.

Sam

> transfer but not much. Which is quite an accomplishment for a newbie
> like myself. Matter of fact, on a back burner, I may start writing about
> this. I think that given the popularity I am seeing it may be wise to
> tell people about this kind of thing so that upgrades go easier. Plus it
> puts your data on a different partition. Anyone got any advice on what
> else should be separated like that?
> Mahalo,
> Edward



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