Disk partitioning and swap

[cyoung at bbnplanet.com (Chuck Young)]

The other thing to consider is upgrading.  Personally, I always do a fresh
install and have been using Red Hat.  I am fortunate to keep all my
important files elsewhere, but many new users will not.

What are experiences doing Red Hat upgrades as it regards partitioning
schemes?  What about other distributions?

Chuck Young
GTE Internetworking

On Fri, 2 Apr 1999 pfarrar at learningco.com wrote:

> Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 11:53:43 -0500
> From: pfarrar at learningco.com
> To: discuss at Blu.Org
> Subject: Re: Disk partitioning and swap
> 
>      I keep my home directory on a seperate partition for this same kind of 
>      reason.  My usr partition died one day.  All my home stuff was fine.  
>      If I had one big partion I would have lost a lot of time and data.  I 
>      reloded my entire operating system and then simply mounted the home 
>      partition again.  No fuss, no muss.  
> 
> 
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> Subject: Re: Disk partitioning and swap
> Author:  Jerry Feldman {75562} <gzf at gbr.msd.ray.com> at InterNet
> Date:    4/2/99 11:08 AM
> 
> 
> Don Troxel makes a good point regarding backups. Back in 1980 when I first 
> started using Unix, the normal partitioning was root and /usr. User 
> directories were normally /usr/users. More recently, the /var and /home 
> directory trees were introduced. One reason for this is backup strategies: 
> The / and /usr file systems are normally very stable. With the exception of 
> some configuration files, there is no need to back them up. The /var file 
> system is constandly changing. It normally contains /var/tmp /var/spool, 
> neither of which need to be preserved for any length of time. And, the /home 
> file system contains user directories. Also, the dump command on commercial 
> Unix platforms is issued on a per file system basis, such as dump /dev/sda4. 
> On a home system, I would be more inclined to use tar to backup various 
> directory trees. 
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