Re: One satisfied customer with f14!

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On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 07:33 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 11/18/2010 07:19 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> > Just for curiosity, why have a separate /boot partition at all?
> > I always just make a single / partition, install everything on it
> > and never run out of space in /boot or /home because it is all the
> > same chunk of space.
> So, you always do upgrades and never complete installs?  What happens if
> it becomes necessary to do a complete install?  Wouldn't you want to
> have a separate /home so you wouldn't have to back it up?
> 
It is my experience that the system files change from one version to the
next. For example the gnote database changed location between recent
versions so you can't easily just maintain your home directory that way.
> There are certainly other reasons for multiple partitions.  The above is
> just one.
> 

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