Re: unbelievably stupid mistake - i broke /usr/lib need help

On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 23:47 -0600, John Pierce wrote:

> I have found that it is faster to do a reinstall of the system than to
> backup an entire system and then restore. I only back up my /home
> directory and my name and web server configurations along with
> /var/www/html.

Yes, only backup the data and the configs, that's usually enough.

But if you do that, then it's not absolutely necessary to create many
partitions. It's backed up anyway, and you're reinstalling anyway so
everything might as well be on a huge / partition.

Currently my home system is partitioned like this:

$ df -m
Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2 48432 32345 13588 71% /
/dev/hda6 204784 104952 99833 52% /av
/dev/hda1 251 14 225 6% /boot
/dev/shm 252 0 252 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda3 29982 16268 13714 55% /win

Almost everything is on a big / because this is the most flexible
scheme.
/av is formatted XFS and it's separate because it's used by MythTV, by
the camcorder, etc.
I tend to keep /boot separate yet, although it's probably not entirely
justified.
/win is the XP partition, formatted FAT32.

When a new Fedora is released, I just wipe everything out, install the
new OS, then restore the few data chunks that I care about
(~/.evolution, ~/.mozilla and stuff like that). /av survives unformatted
if it's too loaded at the moment of upgrade, although I try to avoid
that. And /win of course has it's own separate destiny.

--
Florin Andrei

http://florin.myip.org/

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