What is the consensus on the best partition scheme and size?/Keeping home separate
Jeff Vian
jvian10 at charter.net
Sat Oct 28 19:00:03 UTC 2006
On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 22:07 +0930, Tim wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 12:48 +0100, Chris Jones wrote:
> > Please tell me how you do a clean install into / (i.e. reformat)
> > without losing /home when /home is in / ?
>
> They didn't...
>
> They didn't "format" the drive, but they did remove the files before the
> installation. That gives you a "clean install".
>
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).
Doing it that way means you have to do an rm -rf /<directory> for each
directory that you want to nuke, and having to also remove any files
in / itself... All the while making sure you do not remove /home.
Is there more than one way to skin that cat? Sure.
Some are simple and others are needlessly complex.
This problem is the reason a _lot_ of us have repeatedly recommended
that /home be on its own partition.
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