From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.valkyrie.net ([216.28.214.193]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with smtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17qek4-0003XS-00 for ; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 15:07:36 -0400 Received: (qmail 23987 invoked by uid 0); 15 Sep 2002 19:07:37 -0000 Received: from mlbg-usr1-209-008.valkyrie.net (HELO stargate) (216.28.209.8) by mail.valkyrie.net with SMTP; 15 Sep 2002 19:07:37 -0000 Message-ID: <003401c25cec$a8d713a0$0100a8c0@stargate> From: "Thomas Ward" To: References: <20020915182801.11728.82656.Mailman@speech.braille.uwo.ca> Subject: Re: windblows, was: Re: Look Out Macintosh! Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 15:18:22 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: hi, generally you want /home to be the largest partition. At least in my case. My Red Hat os is on a 40 gb, and I gave 5 gb for installs, about 256 mb for swap, and the rest was my home partition. I figured I could load my home partition with downloadds, books, mp3 files, etc. What is nice about splitting home away from the rest is you can reinstall or upgrade without trashing your data, personally settings, etc. I reinstalled Mandrake 8.2 and wonder of wonders Gnome came up with the same settings I had before blowing away the files, and reinstalled. All because I left /home alone.