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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. ______________________________ Forward Header __________________________________ 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. -- Jerry Feldman (HP On-Site Consultant) http://gbrweb.msd.ray.com/~gzf/ +-------------------------------------------------------+-----Note: ------+ | Raytheon Electronic Systems (W) (781)999-1837/1-1837 | My views may not| | Mail Stop: S3SG10 (F) (781)999-3572/1-3572 | reflect the | | 180 Hartwell Road (E) gzf at gbr.msd.ray.com | views of my | | Bedford, MA 01730-2498 (H) gaf at mediaone.net | employer. | +-------------------------------------------------------+-----------------+ - Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored). -------------- next part -------------- Received: from ns.learningco.com ([198.112.0.7]) by mail.learningco.com with SMTP (IMA Internet Exchange 3.11) id 0003109D; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 11:43:43 -0500 Received: by ns.learningco.com; id LAA11017; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 11:43:02 -0500 (EST) Received: from tarnhelm.blu.org(207.31.228.20) by ns.learningco.com via smap (4.1) id xma010799; Fri, 2 Apr 99 11:42:02 -0500 Received: (from majordom at localhost) by tarnhelm.blu.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA17420 for discuss-outgoing; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 11:15:11 -0500 Received: from cambridge1-smrly1.gtei.net (cam-mail-relay1.bbnplanet.com [199.94.215.242]) by tarnhelm.blu.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA17417 for <discuss at Blu.Org>; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 11:15:09 -0500 Received: from gatekeeper.ray.com (gatekeeper.ray.com [138.125.162.1]) by cambridge1-smrly1.gtei.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA25120 for <discuss at Blu.Org>; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 16:15:07 GMT Received: (mailer at localhost) by gatekeeper.ray.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA10997 for <discuss at Blu.Org>; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 11:09:13 -0500 (EST) Received: from swlmail.msd.ray.com/138.127.109.33(<gzf at gbr.msd.ray.com>) by gatekeeper.ray.com id sma.923069317.028790; Fri Apr 2 11:08:37 1999 Received: from slpyjs.msd.ray.com (slpyjs.msd.ray.com [138.127.33.6]) by swlmail.msd.ray.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA10478 for <discuss at Blu.Org>; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 11:08:52 -0500 (EST) Received: from gbr.msd.ray.com (gbrhpu [138.127.36.14]) by slpyjs.msd.ray.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA13360 for <discuss at Blu.Org>; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 11:08:51 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3704EB94.CCE485C9 at gbr.msd.ray.com> Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 11:08:52 -0500 From: Jerry Feldman {75562} <gzf at gbr.msd.ray.com> Organization: Hewlett-Packard on site at Raytheon X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; HP-UX B.11.00 9000/778) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: discuss at Blu.Org Subject: Re: Disk partitioning and swap References: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9904020900360.16933-100000 at tarnhelm.blu.org> <sjmbth73u4j.fsf at rcn.ihtfp.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-discuss at blu.org Precedence: bulk
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