Disk partitioning and swap

[jrv at vanzandt.mv.com (James R. Van Zandt)]

Chuck Young <cyoung at bbnplanet.com> writes:

>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?

When I used SLS and Slackware, I always did fresh installs.  Now that
I run Debian, I do only incremental upgrades.  With Debian, "insurance
during an upgrade" is no longer an issue.

What about SuSE? :-)

		 - Jim Van Zandt
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