Re: tlug: Erasing a partition

[Fredric Fredricson <fredric.fredriksson@example.com>]

Darren Cook wrote:
> 
> I was going to reinstall Linux (Redhat) - I seemed to have made lots of
> mistakes when I installed before, made worse by my attempts to fix them,
> and so starting again from scratch seems best.
> 
> How should I erase the partition, or will it happen automatically when I
> install?
> 
I apologize that is not an answer to your question but I just wanted
to hint that life is easier with two partitions, one root for all but
/home and one for /home. This makes it easy to change distribution 
and still keep that valuable data and config files that you 
created/collected.
I don't know for sure but I think that RedHat install scripts also
suggests this.

/Fredric
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