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?
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