> under /var, you'd find things like web and ftp server data that you'd > probably want to carry across to the new install. on the other hand, > there's stuff like, perhaps, /var/log or /var/cache or /var/run that > you might not care about. Ideally /var/www, /var/ftp, /var/cvs, /var/mysql and the like should each be on their own separate partition. Easy enough to do that using lvm. -- Ian
