[techtalk] Disk utilities under Linux

Conor Daly conor.daly at oceanfree.net
Mon Oct 9 17:30:31 EST 2000


On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 10:11:22AM -0400 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Caitlyn M. Martin thought:
> Hi, Conor, and everyone else,
> > 
> > If you are installing your Linux system or are happy to reinstall, you
> > could split your disk space into at two or more partitions with, at
> > minimum, /home on a seperate partition.  That way, /home fragmentation can
> > be dealt with without needing to take down the entire system.  More
> > convenient for system upgrades etc also since your data is safe on /home
> > when you reformat / at upgrade time...
> > 
> I wish your e-mail could have been sent through with lots of red stars,
> highlighted, flashing, and so on...  Yes, always put /home separate!  Anyone

Hmmm...  Does mutt support HTML or javascript, I'm sure I could get it to
flash that way... :-)
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Conor Daly <conor.daly at oceanfree.net>

Domestic Sysadmin :-)




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