Optimal Partitioning

[Thomas J. Baker]

On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 14:08 -0400, Amitabha Roy wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> 

Yes, I do it this way all the time. You can specify in the install if a
partition is going to be formatted or not.

tjb
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