Re: tlug: How to install Linux (Part 1) ...

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> The basic issues are safety and convenience.  If /var is in its own
> partition, a runaway process (or a mail-bomb) will fill the /var
> partition, and possibly crash some programs, but shouldn't cause data
> loss in your home directory.  If /home is in its own partition, and
> you (or Scott Stone forces you to) decide to upgrade the system by
> fdisk'ing all of /, /usr, and /var, you don't have to back up and
> restore /home.  Ditto /usr/local (and maybe /usr/src).  The argument
> for /usr being a separate partition is often that it can be mounted
> r/o, increasing safety.

that 'force' thing was only for the betas.  You should be able to do a 2.0
-> 3.0 upgrade using nothing more than your brain and turbopkg.  In that
order of importance, でしょう. :)

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
Head of TurboLinux Development/Systems Administrator
Pacific HiTech, Inc (USA) / Pacific HiTech, KK (Japan)


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