[ale] new to linux, question about partitioning

Sean Kilpatrick drifter at oppositelock.org
Fri Aug 4 16:33:34 EDT 2006


On Friday 04 August 2006 15:55, Step wrote:
| -I have a 250 GB HD, right now it's all one partition (except for /boot 
and
| /swap), as that's what someone recommended. 


Well, its a good thing to have /boot and /swap on separate partitions,
but you really should also set up /home on its own partition.  That
way you can hose the rest of the distribution without losing all
your personal data.

Sean

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