Re: Newbie's question about hard disk partition
On Monday 22 November 2004 8:54 am, Lian Liming wrote:
> RRPotratz wrote:
> > This CAN be confusing. Technically, the only partitions you NEED are
> > / and swap. Even then you may not need swap if you've got a ton of
> > RAM. That being said, still make a swap partition.
> >
> > When I try out a distro, I generally add a /home partition as well so
> > that if I install another distro, or my current distro dies, at least
> > my personal data files can be saved through a reinstall by not
> > formating (initailizing) the /home partition during the reinstall.
>
> Your idea of adding a /home partition seems reasonable.
> I wonder if this is suitable to /var partition. I add a /var partition,
> when reinstall the system(the same distro), don't touch the /var partition.
>
> Is the /var patition still avaible in the newly installed system? anyone
> tests on this?
If you mount it as "/var"
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