Optimal Partitioning

Amitabha Roy royab at bc.edu
Mon Oct 18 18:08:08 UTC 2004



Is there a way to partition a disk and define mount points such that 
fresh installs dont overwrite home user directories ?
 
For example, lets say I mount /dev/hda2 as /home, and /dev/hda3 as 
/usr/local (which will include user installed programs not provided
with the OS) and /dev/hda1 as /.

Now if I do a clean install of (say) FC2 or FC3 will user home 
directories and separate programs in /usr/local still be overwritten ?
Is there an option during install that protects this option ? Once the 
install is made, I want to maintain the old mount points.


Thanks!
Amitabha





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