New install. Partioning advice please.

[Nat Gross]

Paul Howarth wrote:

> Nat Gross wrote:
>
>> On a new FC3 (or FC2) install, on one hard drive, how do I set it up 
>> so that certain directory structures do not get erased when 
>> installing to a future version of Linux?
>> And as a follow up question, can I re-partion an existing fc2 system, 
>> to allow the same?
>> I wasn't aware that this was possible, but the FC-3 install notes 
>> allows for reading the iso's "from a hard drive location not 
>> overwritten by the installation", which prompted this question. This 
>> would prove extremely useful of course, not only for the purpose os 
>> install iso's.
>
>
> You do this my making separate partitions for the areas you think 
> you'll want to keep when doing a fresh install (not an upgrade) at a 
> later date. Typically this would be /home and maybe /usr/local.
>
> If you have the ISO images for a new version downloaded to somewhere 
> in one of these partitions, you should be able to install from them, 
> whilst reformatting and reinstalling everything else.
>
> Paul.
>
Sounds great. One question, can I repartition the existing fc2 /ext3 
drive without losing data?
Thanks
-nat