Re: Fedora on ReiserFS

From: General Schvantzkoph (schvantzkoph_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 11/18/04 

Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 10:11:04 -0500

 
>> swap 1 GB
>> / all the rest
>
> If you have several drives you might be forced to partition differently but
> if you only have one drive why partition?

This is really stupid. At the very least you want /home to be separate for
/ otherwise you can't do a clean install of a new OS. I always have at
leat two partitions for the OS / and another one to be used for a future
upgrade, plus a /home. WHen you do the upgrade you use the alternate
partition so that you don't blow away your current working system.

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