On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 06:12:06AM -0500, David L Norris wrote: > > > articles saying that /home and /usr should also be mounted on seperate > > > partitions so that user data and installed programs can be saved in the > > > event a reinstall is necessary. > Definitely /home and maybe /usr/local. You may want to keep a periodic On most systems, I solve this by moving /usr/local to /home/usrlocal, and making /usr/local be a symlink. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>